Expert Advisory Details

PAU advisory for wheat and oil seeds crops

WHEAT: Farmers are advised to sow wheat varieties Unnat PBW 343, Unnat PBW 550, PBW 1 Zinc, PBW 725, PBW 677, HD 3086, WH 1105, PBW 621, HD 2967.

• Prefer to use happy seeder or super seeder for the sowing of wheat crop.
• Treat 40 Kg seed with Raxil easy/ orius @13 ml (dissolve in 400 ml of water ) or Tebuseed or Seedex 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 can sow yellow rust resistant varieties like PBW 725, Unnat PBW 550, PBW 752 and PBW 660 during this time.

OILSEEDS: Transplanting of gobhi sarson is more profitable during the period than direct sowing. Use 60 days old seedlings of gobhi sarson (GSL-1) but for gobhi sarson hybrid hyola PAC 401 use 35-40 days old seedlings.

• It is optimum time for sowing of Raya varieties Giriraj, RLC 3, PBR 357, RLM 619, PBR 91, PBR 97 and African sarson PC 6.