Expert Advisory Details

Expert advice on wheat farming in march month

The information about wheat farming by experts is given below

• Apply last irrigation to the timely sown wheat around end March. 
• However, late sown wheat may be irrigated upto April 10. 
• The plants affected with flag smut should be rogued off and destroyed so as to reduce the inoculum in the field. 
• Remove loose smut infected ears from the field kept for seed production.
• If the population of aphid reaches at ETL (5 aphids/earhead ), spray the crop with 20 g Actara/Taiyo 25 WG (thiamethoxam) in 80-100 litres of water per acre. 
• Army worm larvae feed on developing grains of wheat. 
• Control these by spraying 400 ml Ekalux 25 EC (Quinalphos) in 100 litres of water per acre.