Expert Advisory Details

PAU advisory for vegetables and horticulture crops

VEGETABLES: It is the optimum time for transplanting of mid-season cauliflower. This is also the best time for sowing of root and leafy vegetables.

• The climatic conditions are ideal for sowing mid season varieties of pea.
• The climatic conditions are ideal for sowing early varieties of potato. Use healthy disease free potato seed for planting. Disinfect the tuber with Emesto Prime @ 83 ml or Monceren @ 250 ml in 100 litres of water for 10 minutes to check black Scurf.

FRUITS: Apply the second dose of urea 500g and SSP 1250 g and 750 g muriate of potash fertilizers per plant (Fully grown) in guava orchards.

• For management of mango malformation, prune the malformed shoots of mango tree and destroy them, spary 100 g Napthalene Acetic Acid in 500 liters of water per acre. Dissolve NAA in 100-150 ml alcohol before mixing in water.