Expert Advisory Details

All the farmers are advised to keep regular checks at plants in the orchards

FRUITS- Protect the evergreen fruit plants especially younger plants from severe cold.

• Thatches by using paddy straw, doob grass, date palm leave etc can be erected on these plants by keeping the sun side open.
• For management of canker in citrus, spray streptocycline 50 g + 25 g copper sulphate in 500 litres of water per acre or Bordeaux mixture (2:2:250) during this month.
• Powdery mildew in ber can be managed with spray of wettable sulphur @ 2.5 g per litre of water and black spot disease in ber can be managed with spray of Bordeaux mixture (2:2:250) during this month.
• Apply one irrigation to ber orchards at this time as the trees are laden with fruits.
• Preparations can be started for establishment of new orchards of deciduous fruits such as pear, peach, plum, grapes, fig etc.
• For management of mango mealy bug, alkathane sheet can be wrapped/fixed tightly around the tree trunks in this month.
• Application of well rotten farm yard manure or other organic manures can be started for all major fruit plants except guava and ber.