Expert Advisory Details

PAU advisory for wheat and oil seeds crops

WHEAT: Farmers are advised to start sowing of wheat varieties Unnat PBW 343, PBW 1 Zinc, PBW 725, PBW 677, HD 3086, WH 1105, PBW 621, HD 2967 and durum wheat WHD 943 and PDW 291.

• Treat 40 Kg seed with Raxil easy/ orius @13 ml (dissolve in 400 ml of water ) or Tebuseed or Seeded or Exzole @ 40 g Or vitavax power @120 g or vitavax @ 80g.
• In termite infested fields, treat the seed with 1 g Cruiser 70 WS or 2 ml Neonix 20 FS or 4 ml Dursban/Ruban/Durmet 20 EC per kg seed and dry in shade. Seed treated with Neonix also controls smuts of wheat.
• Farmers of sub-mountainous areas are advised not to sow wheat crop in October particularly in yellow rust prone areas. They should prefer to grow yellow rust resistant varieties like PBW 725, Unnat PBW 550, PBW 752 and PBW 660 in these areas.

OILSEEDS: It is optimum time for the sowing of Gobhi Sarson varieties GSC 7, GSC 6, Hyola PAC 401, GSL 2 and GSL 1.

• Farmers can start sowing of Raya varieties Giriraj, RLC 3, PBR 357, RLM 619, PBR 91, PBR 97.