Expert Advisory Details

How to take care of wheat crop in March?

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.