2. OBJECTIVES
•Define Farming System and Palay Key
Checks
•Demonstrate appreciation in farming
through a essay
•Demonstrate the application of Palay
Key Checks 1, 2 and 3 through a role
play
3. FARMING
Farming is one of the practices
in agriculture. It is cultivating
land and raising crops.
4. Based on your own experience
and observation, how can we
ensure high yield from our rice
fields?
5. PALAYCHECK
is a dynamic rice crop
management system that
presents the best key
technologies and management
practices as Key Check
6. PALAYCHECK
it aims to sustain
improvement in
productivity, profitability,
and environment safety.
7. PALAYCHECK
covers the principal areas of
crop management, such as seed
quality, land preparation, crop
establishment, and nutrient,
water, pest, and harvest
management.
10. Key Check 1
Seed and Variety Selection
“You reap what you sow!”
•In farming, sow high quality
seed (+good production
practices)
= REAP high quality harvest
11. Key Check 1
Seed and Variety Selection
Why use recommended
varieties?
12. Key Check 1
•Appropriate to the
environment
•Resistant to pests and abiotic
stresses (e.g. drought, flood)
in the locality
13. Key Check 1
•Have produced relatively
stable and high yield in
adaptability trials
•Acceptable to farmers and
demanded by the local
market
14. Key Check 1
Importance of Key Check 1:
•Less pest problems
•More efficient crop
establishment activities
15. Key Check 1
Importance of Key Check 1:
•Lower seed rate but more
vigorous and more uniform
crop germination
•More efficient harvesting
activities
16. Key Check 1
High Quality Seeds
•Relatively pure
•Fewer weed seeds
•Free from seed-borne pests
and diseases
•Full and uniform in size
•Viable
19. Key Check 2
LAND PREPARATION
(WELL-LEVELED FIELD)
A well-leveled field is a pre-
requisite to good crop growth
and management.
20. Key Check 2
LAND PREPARATION
(WELL-LEVELED FIELD)
A well-leveled field is a pre-
requisite to good crop growth
and management.
21. Key Check 2
LAND PREPARATION
(WELL-LEVELED FIELD)
It helps achieve the following:
•Efficient water management
•Less weed incidence
•Better snail management
22. Key Check 2
LAND PREPARATION
(WELL-LEVELED FIELD)
It helps achieve the following:
•Efficient nutrient utilization
•Uniform crop growth and maturity
•Efficient use of farm machinery
23. Key Check 2
LAND PREPARATION
(WELL-LEVELED FIELD)
To achieve a well- leveled field,
weeds, rice straw and stubbles
must be thoroughly decomposed
and land is well-puddled. A
poorly prepared field could yield
5% less.
24. Key Check 2
Recommendations to Achieve Key Check
1. Clean and repair dikes and ditches
•Clean dikes help prevent or reduce pest
infestation
•Compacted dikes prevent seepage
•Dikes maintained at 15cm high x 20cm wide
discourage rat-burrowing.
•Clean ditches ensure water efficiency and
facilitate drainage.
25. Key Check 2
Recommendations to Achieve Key Check 2
3. Harrow the field every 7 days after plowing. The first
harrowing is along the plowing pattern; the second or
initial leveling is crosswise. This will:
•Break the clods
•Incorporate stubbles in the soil
•Allow weed seeds and drop seeds to germinate
•Help reduce initial pest population
•Maintain the soil’s hard pan
26. Key Check 2
Recommendations to Achieve Key Check 2
4. Final-harrow and level the
field using a wooden plank or
tiller-attached leveler. Water
depth must be 5cm to ease
field-leveling.
27. Key Check 2
Which of the farms is well-leveled and
ready for planting?
29. Key Check 3
Fallow period – rest
period of the field to be
fruitful in the next
cropping (1 month)
30. Key Check 3
Why Fallow Period?
•Breaks the insect pest cycle
and destroys disease host
Most of the insect pests have an
average life cycle of 1 month. By
having a fallow period, these insect
pests will not have any food and
habitat.
31. Key Check 3
Why Fallow Period?
•Reduce inoculum in the field
By leaving field idle, the source of
diseases that developed during
the previous cropping season will
have died by the start of the next
season.
32. Key Check 3
Why Fallow Period?
•Allows good decomposition
of the rice straw/organic
materials that can serve as
fertilizer.
33. Key Check 3
Why Synchronous?
•Enables efficient use of irrigation
•Avoids overlapping incidence of
insect and disease population
•Avoid significant yield loss from
pests
38. Activity 1. This is it!
Read each item carefully.
•In 2-3 sentences, in your own
point of view define farming.
•In 3-5 sentences, as a student
what would you do to show your
appreciation in farming and how
would you thank the farmers in
your own special way?
39. Group Activity:
Activity 2: This is the way
Each group will dramatize the
application of PalayChecks 1, 2
,3. Each group shall perform
not less than 3 minutes and not
exceeding to 5 minutes.
40. Group Activity:
Activity 2: This is the way
The leader of every group will
pick a color that represents the
PalayCheck they will act.
•Orange – PalayCheck 1
•Blue – PalayCheck 2
•Green – PalayCheck 3
41. Group Activity:
Activity 2: This is the way
Your performance will be graded
according to the following criteria
42. Group Activity:
Activity 2: This is the way
Criteria Percentage
Understanding of
the topic 40%
Cooperation 30%
Presentation 30%
Total 100%
46. Physical
Don’t skip meals. Especially
breakfast, it slows down your
metabolic rate and can cause weight
gain.
Get at least 6-8 hours of sleep
every night.
47. Physical
Avoid heavy episodic drinking
and drug use. No more than
five drinks in one sitting for
men and four for women. Don’t
play drinking games and space
drinks over time alternating
with a glass of water.
48. INTELLECTUAL
Keep abreast of current affairs.
Take your school work seriously and
spend time in the library.
Seek academic help if you need it.
Become a life long learner.
49. • Try to maintain a positive attitude even when
problems arise.
• Find someone that you trust who you can openly
share your feelings with.
• Need to talk? Go to see your peer, family, and
friends.
• Discover your personal stress reliever. Manage
your time wisely because it will help lower
stress.
EMOTIONAL
50. SOCIAL
•Get involve. There are a
variety of clubs and organized
on campus; you’re bound to find
something that interests you.
51. SOCIAL
•Know who your best friends
are.
•Recognize when you are in an
unhealthy relationship.
