Advantages of Staking and trellising in Bitter gourd

13/03/2020Posted on
  • Bitter gourd grows very fast and vines elongate rapidly within two weeks after planting.
  • Staking and trellising will increase fruit yield, size, reduce fruit’s rotting.
  • This makes the process of harvesting and spraying of pesticides easier.
  • The trellis should be 1.2-1.8 meter high constructed from stacks 1.2 -1.8 meter apart.
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Pinching in watermelon and muskmelon crop 

12/03/2020Posted on
  • Pinches are made to prevent overgrowth of watermelon from the plant.
  • When there is enough fruit on the oxen of watermelon, then there should be a solution to pinch, which can prevent the bull from failing.
  • Pinching and cutting unwanted wounds results in good nutrition for the fruit and the development of the fruits is good.
  • If there are too many fruits on a vine, then remove the small and weak fruits so that the normal fruit gets better.
  • By removing unnecessary branches, watermelon gets complete nutrition and it grows very fast.
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How to Control of red pumpkin beetle in pumpkin and ridge gourd crop

12/03/2020Posted on
  • Destroy the remains of the old crop.
  • if the insect appears in the early stage of the crop, destroy them by hands.
  • Spray Cypermethrin 25% EC 150 ml/acre + Dimethoate 30% EC 300 ml /acre or
  • Carbaryl 50% WP 400 gm/acre at fortnight intervals starting from 25 days after sowing to control the pest.
  • Spraying with Dichlorvos (DDVP) 76% EC @ 250-350 ml/acre gives satisfactory control of the pest.
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Identification of Red Pumpkin Beetle in pumpkin and ridge gourd crop 

11/03/2020Posted on
  • The grubs feed on the roots and underground portion of host plants and fruits touching the soil.
  • After damaging of roots, a portion of stems start rotting due to secondary infection by saprophytic fungi, and the unripe fruits of such vines dry up.
  • Infested fruits become unfit for human consumption.
  • Adult beetles feed voraciously on leaf lamina making irregular holes.
  • They prefer young seedlings and tender leaves and the damage may even kill the seedlings.
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Do you know the new support price of mustard and gram crop?

11/03/2020Posted on

The time for harvesting of mustard and gram crops has arrived and thus the central government has fixed the support price for these two crops. The revised support price for gram has been fixed at Rs 4875, while the support price of mustard has been fixed at Rs 4425.

Information regarding Registration 

  • The farmers would have to submit their fingerprints for registration.
  • Farmers would also have to provide the photo-copy of some important documents like Aadhar card, Janadhar card / Bhamashah card, photocopy of bank passbook, and the date and serial number of P-35 of Girdawari.
  • It should be noted that only one farmer can register with one mobile number. For registration, the farmer will have to pay Rs 31.
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The story of MP’s influential farmers’ will be shown on the silver screen.

11/03/2020Posted on

The MP Government and the Central Government have decided to make a movie on the story of those farmers who are producing a tremendous quantity of crops on small farms. Most of these farmers are earning millions from their small fields.

With this move, the Government aims to inspire and encourage other small farmers of the nation, so that they can also increase their production through these advanced farming methods. The task of making this film has been given to an organization in Gujarat. The team will soon start its research work from Sheopur in the coming month.

Farmer changed his life with pomegranate farming

Farmer Trilok Toshniwal from Zaida village turned his 8 bighas rocky land into a fertile farm with his hard work and patience. Then he began growing pomegranate and other fruit plants on this farm, and today he is earning 15 to 20 lakhs per anum from the same field. Now, his story will also be shown in the film.

Guava cultivation changed farmers’ destiny

Many farmers of Jwalapur and Soikala region of Madhya Pradesh had shifted their focus from traditional farming and start concentrating on guava cultivation a few years ago. Their hard work had started paying off as they are earning 8 to 10 lakh rupees per anum from guava farming with just 5 to 8 bighas of land. Their success story would also be included in this film.

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How to identify Gummy Stem blight disease in the pumpkin, watermelon, melon crop.

09/03/2020Posted on
  • In this disease, infection is visible on almost every part of the plant except the roots.
  • A Yellowness/greenness occurs at the edges of the leaves, while spots start occurring on their surfaces. 
  • The wound is formed on the stem of the plant which is infected by this disease. Then a black-coloured gummy substance starts releasing from this wound. 
  • On the string, brown spots become black spots which later go to the wound.
  • In bottle gourd seeds have medium-brown, dark spots.
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