Considerable Increase in Rice Grain Yield due to rice Nutritional Monitoring Program at First harvested Paddy field of Guilan Province

    Dr. Shahram Mahmoud Soltani, an academic member of the RRII and the member of on-farm control of the rice nutritional requirements committee together with Dr. Maryam Shakouri Senior research of the RRII visited the farmer field in Lahijan city in Guilan province on July 27, 2021.

In this visit Eng. Haghi, the in-charge agricultural expert of the abovementioned farm, and some of the managers and agricultural experts of Roodbaneh City explained the agricultural operations such as fertilizer application and other cultivation processes.

Mr. Hagi, the pioneer rice farmer of Roodbanh was the first farmer of monitored paddy fields that harvested his farm earlier than others around two weeks. Dr. Mahmoud Soltani and his academic group collected the morphological and physiological data as well as soil samples for more information.

The harvested paddy yield indicated a significant increase in the grain yield due to nutrient monitoring across the growth periods.