Expert Advisory Details

PAU Advisory for Vegetables Crop

VEGETABLES

Potato

• The climatic conditions are ideal for sowing early varieties. Take out seed potato from the cold storage in the first fortnight of this month and spread in ventilated place under diffused sunlight in thin layers. Turn the surface of tubers once in a day and allow buds to sprout for a week. Sprouts should attain 0.5 - 1.0 cm length before sowing.
• Use healthy and disease free seed.
• Disinfect the tubers before sowing with 0.25 % solution of Monceren (250ml per 100 litre water) or 0.083 % of Emesto Prime (83 ml per 100 litre water) for 10 minutes to check black scurf of potato.
• Application of FYM @ 20 tonnes per acre or green manuring is beneficial for this crop.Drill 82.5 kg urea, 155 kg superphosphate and 40 kg muriate of potash per acre at the time of sowing and remaining urea of 82.5kg at the time of earthing-up.
• For weed control, use Gramoxone/Kabuto 24 SL (paraquat) @ 500-750 ml per acre at the stage when most of the weeds have emerged and potato crop showed 5-10 % emergence.Use 250 to 300 litres of water in knap sack sprayer fitted with flat fan nozzle and 100 litres of water with power sprayer.

Peas

• If pea crop is to be sown for the first time treat the seed (40kg/acre) of early maturing varieties i.e AP-3 and Mater Ageta-7 with Rhizobium culture specific for pea. Apply 8 tonnes of FYM, 45 kg urea and 155 kg superphosphate per acre before sowing.
• Apply 10 kg Furadan 3 G per acre in furrows at sowing for reducing the infestation of stem fly in early sown pea crop.

Root Crops

• Start sowing of “desi” varieties of radish (Punjab Safed Mooli-2), turnip (L-1) and carrot (Punjab Black Beauty and PC 161), using 4-5 kg seed rate of radish and carrot and 2-3 kg seed rate of turnip per acre. Keep ridges 45 cm and plants 7.5 cm apart. Cultivation ofroot crops on ridges help in better growth and development of roots and easy harvest. To maintain plant- plant distance do the thinning of seedlings 15 days after emergence.