Expert Advisory Details

PAU advisory for vegetables and horticulture crops

VEGETABLES: It is optimum time to sow root crops like radish, turnip and carrot. Use 2 kg seed for turnip and 4 kg seed for carrot and radish per acre. Before sowing, treat the seed with Captan or Thiram @ 3 g per kg of seed.

• It is the optimum time for transplanting of nursery of tomato, brinjal.
• Complete sowing of peas and hand hoeing should be done to control weeds.
• Complete sowing nursery of onion hybrid POH-1 and varieties PRO-7, Punjab Naroya, PYO-1 and PWO-2.
• Regularly survey the potato crop during these days and rogue out virus affected potato plants from the seed crop.
• To protect potato crop from late blight, spray Indofil M-45/Mass M-45/Markzeb/Antracol/ Kavach @ 500- 700 g or Copper Oxychloride 50 WP/Mark copper @ 750- 1000 g/acre in 250- 350 litres of water at 7 days interval.

FRUITS: The harvesting of ‘Daisy’ variety of mandarin should be completed as early as possible; otherwise, the delay in harvesting will result in drying up of juice vesicles.

• The temperature is decreasing day by day and the efforts should be initiated to protect the cold sensitive and young fruit plants such as mango, papaya, guava, litchi etc.
• For the control of fruit drop prior to ripening of ber fruits, give second spray of NAA (Naphthalene acetic acid @15g /500 liters of water) in the 2nd fortnight of November. NAA should be dissolved in a small quantity of alcohol or spirit and then the required volume of water should be added.