Expert Advisory Details

Expert advice on vegetables such as Bottle gourd, Tinda and Bitter Gourd

VEGETABLES- This is the right time for sowing of Punjab Suhawani variety of okra and Cowpea 263 of cowpea.

• Use 2 kg seed per acre for sowing of bottle gourd, sponge gourd, bitter gourd, ash gourd, tinda and 1.0 kg seed for wanga as per recommendations.
• Transplanting of early varieties of cauliflower can be done.
• Prevailing weather is favourable for fruit rot and die back disease in chilli. Protect the crop by spraying 250 ml Folicur or 750 g Indofil M 45 or Blitox in 250 litres of water per acre after weather clears up.
• To check fruit and shoot borer attack in brinjal, spray 80 ml Coragen 18.5 SC or 80 g Proclaim 5SG in 100-125 litres of water per acre after weather clears up.