Expert Advisory Details

Advisory for farmers cultivating Paddy crop

RICE- To save the rice crop from sheath blight, keep the bunds of the field clean by removing grasses.

• If the symptoms of disease appears, then spray 150 ml Pulsor or 26.8 g Epic or 80 g Nativo or 200 ml Amistar Top or Tilt or Folicur/Orius in 200 litres of water per acre after weather clears up.
• To protect the crop from false smut, spray 500 g Kocide or 400 ml Galileo way in 200 litres of water per acre after weather clears up.
• When the leaf folder damage reaches 10 per cent (ETL), this pest can be controlled by spraying 20 ml Fame 480 SC or 60 ml Coragen 18.5 SC or 170 g Mortar 75 SG or one litre of Coroban/Durmet/Force 20 EC or 80 ml neem based biopesticide, Ecotin in 100 litres of water per acre after weather clears up.
• To manage blast in basmati crop, spray 500 g Indofil Z78 or 200 ml Amistar Top in 200 litres of water per acre at boot and ear emergence stages.