Botanical name: Secale cereale
Family: Poaceae
Chrpmpsome number: 2n=14
Importance of Rye
- Minor rabi cereal
- Used for green fodder
- Pasture crop
- Green manure crop
- Cover crop
- Used to mix with wheat flour for bread making
Area & distribution
- World – 16.3 M ha, 40.7 M t
- Russia, Germany, Austria, Hungary, USA, Canada, Poland, Turkey
- India – Punjab, Haryana, UP
Origin– Western Asia to Southern Russia
Climate
- It is a winter hardy cereal
- Can tolerate cold but not heat
Soil
- It is the only Rabi cereal more suited for sandy soil
Season
- Winter and Spring seasons
- As sown for other Rabi cereals
Varieties
- Not so numerous as wheat, barley or oats
- Winter season
- Forage type
- Athens, Common, Abruzzes
- Grain type
- Rosan, Dakold, Balba
- Forage type
- Spring season
- Prolific, Merced
Time of sowing
- For Forage
- October is best
- Grain crop
- November
- Pasture / green manure / cover crops
- August
Seed rate
- Forage
- 75-95 kg /ha
- Grain
- 55-65 kg/ha
Land preparation
- As done to other winter cereals
Method of sowing
- Drill seeding is better than direct seeding
Nutrient management
- Organic manure 12.5t /ha
- N
- 30-90 kg applied in two splits
- Basal + first irrigation
- P2O5
- 35-55 kg –basal
- K2O
- 65 kg basal
Irrigation management
- CRI and flowering are crucial
- Six irrigations
- Sowing
- CRI – 20-25 DAS
- Tillering – 40-45 DAS
- Late jointing – 70-75 DAS
- Flowering
- Dough stage
- If limited irrigation
- One – CRI
- Two – CRI + Flowering
- Three CRI + Late jointing + Flowering
Harvest
- For forage
- Two cuttings
- 50-55th day and again
- Dough stage
- Two cuttings
- Forage cum grain
- Two as above but the second after maturity
Yield
- 50-55t if fodder
- Dual
- 25 t fodder, 2.5t grain+2.5t straw
Health Benefits of Rye
The most impressive health benefits of rye include its ability to help with weight loss, increase the efficiency of your digestive system, help prevent gallstones, lower your risk of diabetes, lower your blood pressure, protect your cardiovascular health, prevent various types of cancer, and even lower the chances of developing childhood asthma.
It looks like wheat
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