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Suggestions for farmers Successful Groundnut Cultivation

 Groundnut: After the harvest of wheat, groundnut can be sown up to the end of May after applying rauni. The seed should be further treated with 2 ml Neonix 20 FS or 1.5g Seedex or 5 g Thiram or 3 g of Indofil M-45 per kg of kernels. Seed treatment with Neonix also controls white grubs and termites.

• Apply 13 kg of urea, 50 kg of single superphosphate, 17 kg muriate of potash and 50 kg of gypsum per acre at the time of sowing. If recommended dose of phosphorus had been applied to wheat, its application to groundnut can be omitted. Apply potassium only to soils testing low in this nutrient. In soils having zinc deficiency, apply 25 kg of zinc sulphate heptahydrate (21%) or 16 kg of zinc sulphate monohydrate (33%) per acre; this quantity is sufficient for 2-3 years.