Expert Advisory Details

PAU's Advisory for farmers

Forecast for coming week: Light to moderate rain/thundershowers likely at a few places on 28th ; at many places from 29thto 31st and at a few places thereafter in the state.

Warning: Heavy rain likely at isolated places on 29th and heavy to very heavy rain likely at isolated places on 30th& 31st in the state. Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning likely at isolated places on 29th to 31st in the state.

Outlook for subsequent two days: Rain/thundershowers likely at a few places in the state.

02-08 August Rainfall forecast: Expected to have rainfall 5.8 mm against the normal of 5.8 mm during the period.

WEATHER CROP OUTLOOK:Farmers are advised to apply need based irrigation in view of weather forecast.

Cotton: In view of rainfall, apply only need based irrigation to cotton crop. Apply remaining half dose of nitrogen at flowering stage.

• To prevent the incidence of mealy bug on the crop, remove all the weeds growing around the crop fields.
• Farmers are advised to regularly monitor the crop. If symptoms of fungal foliar leaf spots observed, spray the crop with 200 ml of Amistar Top in 200 litres of water per acre.

Rice: Apply irrigation to paddy crop, two days after the ponded water has infiltrated into the soil. Care should be taken that the field does not develop cracks.

• To save the rice crop from sheath blight, keep the bunds of the field clean by removing grasses.
• Completetransplanting of basmati varietiesCSR 30, Basmati 370, Basmati 386 and Pusa Basmati 1509 during the period.
• Use PAU-Leaf colour chart for need based urea application.

Sugarcane: Check black bug especially on ratoon crop by spraying 350 ml Dursban/Lethal/Massban/Goldban 20EC (chlorpyriphos) in 400 litres of water per acre. Direct the spray into the leaf whorl.

Maize: Apply second dose of nitrogen (37 or 25 kg per acre, respectively for the long and medium/short duration cultivars) at knee high stage.

• Control maize borer by spraying 30ml Coragen 18.5SC in 60 litres of water per acre. Trichogramma, a bioagent can also be used as recommended by PAU.
• To manage fall armyworm on grain crop, sprayCoragen 18.5SC @ 0.4ml per litre water or Delegate 11.7sc (spinetoram)@0.5ml per litre or Missile 5SG (emamectin benzoate) @0.4g/litre using 120 litres of water per acre for crop upto 20 days old. For effective control direct the nozzle towards the whorl.
• On fodder crop sprayCoragen 18.5SC @ 0.4ml per litre water. Don’t harvest fodder till 21 days after insecticide application.

Vegetables: It is the time sowing of okra and cucurbits such as cucumber, bottle gourd, sponge gourd, pumpkin etc.

• Jassidin okra (Bhindi) can be managed by spraying once or twice at fortnightly interval with 40 ml confidor 17.8SL (imidacloprid) or 40 g Actara 25WG (thiamethoxam) in 100-125 litres of water per acre.
• Prevailing weather is favourable for the development and spread of fruit rot and die back disease of chilli. Farmers are advised to spray the crop with 250 ml Folicur or 750 gm of Indofil M-45or Blitox in 250 litres of water per acre at 10 days interval to timely check the disease.

Fruits: Fix fruit fly traps (16 traps per acre) in guava to protect the rainy season guava fruits from fruit fly.

• Monsoon showers are expected during this week; farmers can delay irrigation to fruit plants such guava, citrus etc. The spray of pesticides or micronutrients should also plan accordingly.
• Sufficient humidity and optimum air temperature during this week is highly suitable for planting new evergreen fruit pants such as citrus, mango, litchi, guava, papaya, jamun, sapota, amla etc.Bagging of individual mature green and hard fruits of guava with white coloured non-woven bags will protect the fruits from fruit fly damage.