PR 126 OP Paddy

PR 126 is a notified, short-duration non-basmati (parmal) paddy from PAU Ludhiana for Kharif, ready to harvest in 90–100 days after transplanting — about 93 days in PAU trials. It adapts to a wide range of soils, stands about 102 cm, has long slender clear translucent grain and is resistant to seven of the ten bacterial blight pathotypes found in Punjab (PAU).

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PR 126 is the variety PAU recommends to save water and to vacate the field early for wheat — and the one to prefer if your transplanting runs late. Two rules decide the yield: transplant 25–30 day old seedlings (not older), and never transplant after 15 July. Its third urea split comes early, at 35 days.

Land and sowing window

• Season: Kharif, transplanted or direct seeded
• Soil: grows in many soil types, including soils with low water-holding capacity; soil pH 5.0–9.5. Loams are best
• Nursery sowing (PAU): 25 May – 20 June. In Haryana the state rule allows nursery sowing only from 15 May
• Transplanting (PAU): 20 June – 10 July; for uniform ripening and grain quality not beyond 15 July. In Haryana transplanting is allowed only from 15 June
• Direct seeding (PAU tar-wattar DSR): 1–15 June, medium to heavy soils only — not on light sandy soils

How to sow

• Seed rate: 8 kg of heavy seed per acre for the nursery (PAU; 8–9 kg is common) — two 4 kg packs for one acre. For direct seeding 8–10 kg per acre
• Seed treatment: carbendazim + mancozeb 75 WS at 3 g per kg seed before sprouting. For DSR, first soak the seed 12 hours in 2% potassium nitrate (200 g in 10 L water for 8 kg seed)
• Nursery: sprouted seed broadcast on about 160 sq m (6.5 marla) per acre. PAU's nursery dose is 26 kg urea + 60 kg single superphosphate + 40 kg zinc sulphate heptahydrate per acre of nursery area — for a 160 sq m bed roughly 1 kg urea, 2.5 kg SSP and 1.5 kg zinc sulphate at sowing, plus another 1 kg urea a fortnight later. Seedlings are ready in 25–30 days
• Seedling age: 25–30 days — PAU stresses this for PR 126; older seedlings cut yield and quality
• Spacing: 20 cm between rows × 15 cm between hills (33 hills per sq m), 2 seedlings per hill, 2–3 cm deep — the same spacing also for late transplanting of PR 126. Direct seeding: 20 cm rows, 3–4 cm deep
• Pack size: 4 kg

Manure and fertiliser (per acre)

• FYM / green manure: 6 tonnes of farmyard manure before puddling saves about 35 kg urea; a dhaincha or sunnhemp green manure saves about 55 kg urea
• Nitrogen (N): 42 kg N = 90 kg urea, in three equal splits — within 7 days of transplanting, at 21 days and (for PR 126) at 35 days. Apply the later splits when water is not standing and irrigate on the third day
• Phosphorus (P₂O₅): 12 kg (27 kg DAP or 75 kg single superphosphate) before puddling, only where the soil test shows deficiency; skip if the preceding wheat got its recommended phosphorus
• Potash (K₂O): 12 kg (20 kg muriate of potash) only where the soil test shows deficiency
• Zinc: 25 kg zinc sulphate heptahydrate (21%) or 16 kg monohydrate (33%) at puddling if the field has shown zinc deficiency
• Direct-seeded crop: 130 kg urea in three equal splits at 4, 6 and 9 weeks after sowing (90 kg after green manuring or 6 t FYM); no urea at sowing

Water, weeds and pests

• Irrigation: keep standing water in the field for the first 15 days after planting, then irrigate two days after the ponded water has soaked in; never let the field crack. Stop irrigation about 15 days before harvest. Direct-seeded crop: first irrigation about 21 days after sowing, then every 5–7 days
• Weeds: pre-emergence herbicide mixed in 60 kg sand within 2–3 days of transplanting (e.g. pretilachlor 50 EC 600 mL or pendimethalin 30 EC 1–1.2 L per acre), or bispyribac-sodium 10 SC 100 mL per acre in 150 L water at 20–25 days when weeds have 2–4 leaves. DSR: pendimethalin 30 EC 1 L per acre immediately after sowing. Rotate herbicide groups
• Pests and disease: stem borer (spray at 5% dead hearts), leaf folder (10% leaf damage), planthoppers (5 per hill — tap plants weekly from a month after transplanting); prefer neem (azadirachtin 5%, 80 mL per acre) at pest start and avoid synthetic pyrethroids. Watch sheath blight and false smut (fungicide at boot stage in disease-prone areas). Scout regularly and spray only as per label and your state advisory

Where it will not do well

Transplanted after 15 July — ripening becomes uneven and grain moisture stays high. Direct seeding fails on light sandy soils because of iron deficiency.

Harvest

• Duration: 90–100 days after transplanting (PAU: about 93 days) — usually early to mid October, leaving time for wheat
• Stage: when the ears are nearly ripe and the straw has turned yellow; dead-ripe paddy shatters. Dry to 17% moisture or less for the mandi, 12% for storage
• Grain: long slender, clear translucent

Crop practices follow state agricultural university recommendations for North India; confirm doses for your district with your Kern dealer or KVK.

अक्सर पूछे जाने वाले सवाल

PR 126 की नर्सरी और रोपाई कब करें?

नर्सरी 25 मई – 20 जून और रोपाई 20 जून – 10 जुलाई, 15 जुलाई के बाद नहीं। हरियाणा में नर्सरी 15 मई और रोपाई 15 जून से पहले नहीं।

एक एकड़ में कितना बीज लगेगा?

नर्सरी के लिए 8 किग्रा भारी बीज प्रति एकड़ — 4 किग्रा के 2 पैक; सीधी बिजाई में 8–10 किग्रा।

पौध कितने दिन की हो?

25–30 दिन की; इससे पुरानी पौध से पैदावार और गुणवत्ता घटती है।

कितना यूरिया डालें?

90 किग्रा यूरिया (N 42) प्रति एकड़, तीन बराबर हिस्सों में — रोपाई के 7, 21 और 35 दिन पर।

फसल कितने दिन में पकती है?

रोपाई के 90–100 दिन बाद (लगभग 93 दिन), आमतौर पर अक्टूबर की शुरुआत से मध्य तक।

Please quote variety name PR 126 when ordering.

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