Expert Advisory Details

PAU Advisory for Vegetables Crop

Vegetables: It is the optimum time for transplanting of mid-season cauliflower and also the best time for sowing of carrot, broccoli, Chinese cabbage, spinach. Use 4-6 kg/acre seed of spinach variety Punjab Green.

• The climatic conditions are ideal for sowing early varieties of potato.
• Start sowing of “desi” varieties of radish (Punjab Safed Mooli-2), turnip (L-1) and carrot (Punjab Black Beauty and PC 161), using 4-5 kg seed rate of radish and carrot and 2-3 kg seed rate of turnip per acre
• Jassid in okra (Bhindi) can be managed by spraying once or twice at fortnightly interval with 40 ml confidor 17.8SL or 40 g Actara 25WG in 100-125 litres of water per acre.