Expert Advisory Details

PAU Advisory for Cotton Crop

Cotton: In view of rainfall, apply only need based irrigation to cotton crop. Apply remaining half dose of nitrogen at flowering stage.

• Monitor the crop regularly for whitefly attack and spray should be done when population reaches 6 adults/leaf in the upper canopy of the plant before 10 AM.
• Initiate spray against jassid when ever some of the fully formed leaves in the upper canopy show yellowing and curling at the margins on 50 percent on the plants. Use Keefun 15EC (tolfenpyrad) @ 300ml/acre or Ulala 50 WG (flonicamid) @ 80 g/acre or Osheen 20 SG (dinotefuran) or Imidacel/Markdor/Isogashi 17.8 SL/Confidence 555/Confidor 200 SL (imidacloprid) @ 40 ml/acre in 125-150 litres of water.
• To prevent the incidence of mealy bug on the crop, remove all the weeds growing around the crop fields.
• Farmers are advised to regularly monitor the crop. If symptoms of fungal foliar leaf spots observed, spray the crop with 200 ml of Amistar Top in 200 litres of water per acre.