Expert Advisory Details

Expert's suggestion for vegetable farmers for September Month

Suggestions for the vegetable farming are given as follow:

1. The climatic conditions are ideal for sowing early varieties. Take out seed potato from the cold storage in the first fortnight of this month and spread in ventilated place under diffused sunlight in thin layers. Turn the surface of tubers once in a day and allow buds to sprout for a week. Sprouts should attain 0.5 - 1.0 cm length before sowing.

2. Use healthy and disease free seed.

3. Disinfect the tubers before sowing with 0.25 % solution of Monceren (2.5ml per litre water) for 10 minutes to check black scurf of potato.

4. Drill 80 kg urea, 155 kg superphosphate and 40 kg muriate of potash per acre at the time of sowing. Application of FYM @ 20 tonnes per acre or green manuring is beneficial for this crop so it should be applied.

5. For weed control, use Lasso 50WP (Alachlor) or Gramoxone @ 500-750 ml per acre at the stage when most of the weeds have emerged and potato crop showed 5-10 % emergence. Use 250 to 300 litres of water in knap sack sprayer fitted with flat fan nozzle and 100 litres of water with power sprayer.

Peas

1. In case pea crop is to be sown for the first time in AP-3, treat 40 kg seed of early maturing varieties like Mater Ageta-6, Mater Ageta-7 or Arkel with Rhizobium culture specific for pea. Apply 45 kg urea and 155 kg superphosphate per acre before sowing.

2. Apply 10 kg Furadan 3 G per acre in furrows at sowing for reducing the infestation of stem fly in early sown pea crop.

Garlic

In the second fortnight of this month, apply 20 tonnes of well rotten farmyard manure per acre and mix it into the soil. Apply 40 kg urea and 155 kg superphosphate per acre at sowing. Dibble or drill 225 to 250 kg healthy cloves of garlic in wattar condition on ridges. Keep lines 15 cm and plants 7.5 cm apart. Irrigate immediately thereafter.

Palak

Use 4-6 kg/acre seed of Punjab Green. Seed should be sown 3-4 cm deep in rows at 20 cm apart in wattar conditions.

Cole crops

1. Transplant fully developed seedlings (4-6 weeks old) of main season varieties of cauliflower. Apply 45 kg urea, 155 kg superphosphate and 40 kg muriate of potash before transplanting.

2. Sowing of late season varieties of cauliflower i.e. Pusa Snow Ball-1 and Pusa Snow Ball K-1 can be started. Sow 250 g seed in one marla to grow seedlings for planting an acre.

Root Crops

Start sowing of “desi” varieties of radish (Punjab Safed Mooli-2, Punjab Pasand), turnip (L-1) and carrot (Punjab Black Beauty, Punjab Carrot Red and PC 34), using 4-5 kg seed rate of radish and carrot and 2-3 kg seed rate of turnip per acre. Keep ridges 45 cm and plants 7.5 cm apart. Cultivation of root crops on ridges help in better growth and development of roots and easy harvest. To maintain plant- plant distance do the thinning of seedlings 15 days after emergence