Expert Advisory Details

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Posted by Ministry of Earth Sciences, Meteorological Centre, Shimla
Punjab
2020-10-14 11:01:33

Advisory for crops

Ravi Crops:-

  • Field preparation should be started for early mustard sowing.
  • Farmers are advised to do arrangement for quality seeds.Sowing of gram and
  • lentil should be completed in lower areas.
  • Make preparations for early wheat sowing in lower regions.

Fodder Crops:

  • Cut grasses before flowering and dry for future needs.
  • African tall variety of maize and makchari can be sown as catch crops for animal fodder.
  • Sowing berseem, lucerne and oats for fodder of Rabi season also advised.
  • Prepare silage out of extra fodder of maize to meet the requirement of fodder during lean periods, especially in the month of December and January.
  • The lantana weeds in the grasslands may be cut so that regenerated growth during September can be sprayed with 1% glyphosate for its control Advised to sowing of fodder maize.