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PAU experts' advice vegetables crops

Irrigate vegetable crops at weekly intervals depending upon soil and climate conditions. Harvest fruits of okra, bottle gourd, cucumber, bittergourd, spongegourd, tinda, and summer squash etc when green and tender. Harvest muskmelon and watermelon after checking for sweetness and flesh colour. Chilli can be harvested green or red depending upon requirement. Harvest in incurring to avoid disruption in pollution. Harvest mature umbels of seed crop of onion and carrot at weekly intervals. Dry, thrash, clean and store the dry seed in a dry place. Harvesting should be completed in 3 to 4 rounds in the morning as it prevents shattering of seed. Harvest the onion and garlic bulbs. Cure under shade and store them in a dry place. The garlic should be stored with stalks intact and after tying in small bundles. The onion stalk should be cut just 2-3 cm above the bulb before storage to prevent the infection during storage. Since prices are low during this period, buy tomato in bulk to prepare ketchup, chutany, juice etc. for later use. Fruit and shoot borer of brinjal should be controlled by spraying Proclaim 5 SG @ 80g or Coragen 18.5 SC @ 80ml in 100-125 litres of water per acre. Brinjal mite may also be checked by spraying 300 ml Omite 57 EC in 100-150 litres of water per acre.