September 2020 – Gramophone

Control of Leaf Miner in Bottle Gourd

30/09/2020 Monday September 25th, 2023

This pest mainly damages the bottle gourd crop. Caterpillars of this insect first damage the leaves of the bottle gourd plant.
After the eggs hatch, the caterpillars make a curved web on the leaves with its silk thread and feed the leaf through the veins.
For control of this pest use ABAMECTIN 1.9 % EC@ 150 ml/acre or SPINOSAD 45 % SC@70 ml/acre or PROFENOFOS 40 % + CYPERMETHRIN 4% EC @ 400 ml/acre
As a biological treatment use Bavaria Basiana @ 250 gram/acre

Dhanuka agricultural company joined hands with Gramophone

30/09/2020 Wednesday September 30th, 2020

This large agricultural company joined hands with Gramophone

Gramophone has joined hands with leading agrochemical company Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. With its expertise in the agricultural sector and world-class technologies, the company is endeavoring to increase its reach to farmers and provide them affordable solutions for their crops through the tech platform Gramophone.

However, this partnership will ensure the convenient delivery of agricultural inputs such as seeds, crop protection, and crop nutrition products through agronomy intelligence. Gramophone has also partnered with local young rural entrepreneurs to ensure last-mile delivery. Companies like Dhanuka are also collecting real-time data from farmers across the country. This will help in increasing their productivity by providing the best quality products to the farmers.

Information and characteristics of improved varieties of mustard

29/09/2020 Monday January 11th, 2021

The percentage of oil content is higher in certified varieties, so sowing of certified varieties is more beneficial, certified varieties of mustard are follows
Pitambari (RYSK-05-02): – It is a hybrid variety of mustard, with a total yield of 614 kg/acre and early maturing variety (110-115 days).
Pusa Mustard 27 (EJ 17): – It is a hybrid variety of mustard, with a total yield of 575-660 kg/acre and it has an oil percentage of 40-45%, suitable for planting irrigated variety and mixed crops.
LET-43 (PM30): – This is a hybrid variety of mustard, with a total yield of 625-895 kg/acre and oil percentage is 36-39.4% and uric acid is found in small amounts.

Sow these newly developed varieties of mustard to get good yield

29/09/2020 Monday January 11th, 2021

Mustard is a major oilseed crop, production can be increased if certified varieties are selected for sowing. Certified varieties of mustard are as follow
RGN-73: – It is a hybrid variety of mustard and has a total yield of 802 kg/acre and contains 40% oil percentage, fully irrigated, and favorable for growing in cold weather.
NRC HB 101: – It is a hybrid variety of mustard, with a total yield of 550-600 kg/acre and has an oil percentage of 35-42%, fully irrigated and suitable for late sowing.
NRCHB506 (hybrid): – It is a hybrid variety of mustard and has a total yield of 600-1000 kg/acre and oil percentage is 39-43%, fully irrigated, and more adapted.

Registration begins for purchase of Kharif produce on support price in MP

28/09/2020

Harvesting of Kharif season crops is about to begin now and in view of this, the procurement process has also been started on the support price of Kharif produce. Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan has said on the subject that “excellent arrangements will be made for procurement from farmers on support price of paddy etc. crops in the Kharif marketing year 2020-21”.

CM said that 1395 registration centers have been set up so far this year for the procurement of paddy, jowar, and millet on support price. Registration has started on these which will run till October 15. Explain that 9 thousand 142 farmers have registered themselves in the first two days of registration.

Talking about the support price, this time the support price of jowar, millet, and paddy has been kept at Rs 2620, 2150, and 1868 per quintal respectively. Last year it was Rs 2550, 2000 and 1825 per quintal respectively.

Source: Krishi Jagran

Spray Management in Onion Nursery in 20 days

28/09/2020 Monday January 11th, 2021

Spray management is very important within twenty days of onion nursery sowing.
This spray is used for fungal diseases, control of insects and good growth of onion nursery.
Onion nursery gets a good start with the help of this spray.
Spray MANCOZEB 64%+ METALAXYL 8% WP @60 gram/pump for fungal diseases.
For pest management, FIPRONIL 40 % + IMIDACLOPRID 40 % WG@ 5 gram / pump.

Nitrogen valuable ingredients for agriculture

27/09/2020 Saturday September 26th, 2020

Nitrogen is found in soil in both organic and abiotic forms
Nitrogen is found 95% in soil, but still, nitrogen deficiency is found in very large amounts in the soil.
Nitrogen found in soil is in the organic form which cannot be used by soil and crop.
Soil and crops use only inorganic forms of nitrogen.
Some of the nitrogen-rich sources are ammonium nitrate (NO3), ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, calcium ammonium nitrate, urea, urea ammonium nitrate. These are all types of inorganic nitrogen.
Whenever soil or crop requires it, it dissolves in the soil giving great benefits to plants and also improving soil structure.

Importance of Homobrassinolide for Crops

26/09/2020 Saturday September 26th, 2020

Homobrassinolide is a very beneficial product for the crop. It helps to increase the stress tolerance of the plant,
Stress tolerant crops yield more.
Homobrassinolide is very helpful in increasing the number of seeds, the weight of seeds, it also helps in increasing the yield per plant.
Homobrassinolide promotes metabolic activity through enzyme and protein synthesis
Homobrassinolide promotes photosynthesis and helps in accelerating the production of food in the plant.
Homobrassinolide is used as spraying in the pre-flowering stage.

Mandi Bhaw: What are the prices of potato, onion and wheat in different mandis of MP?

26/09/2020

Onion prices are running at Rs 850 per quintal at Indore’s Gautampura mandi and potato and onion rates at Rs 2700 and 1500 per quintal at Deori mandi in Sagar district.

Apart from this, the prices of bitter gourd are running at Rs 4550, 2200 per quintal in Damoh, and Harda Mandi respectively. Talk about the tomato market price in Damoh, it is Rs 2500 per quintal, while in Petlavad market it is running Rs 1800 per quintal, in Barot mandi, it is Rs 1700 per quintal.

Talking about wheat, at present the price in Aklera mandi is Rs 1632 per quintal. At the same time, wheat prices in different mandis of Indore like Gautampura, Mau, Sanver, and Indore are 1900, 1810, 1656, 1519 per quintal respectively.

Source: Kisan Samadhan

Methods and precautions for seed treatment before sowing in crops

26/09/2020 Friday September 25th, 2020

Seed treatment in Rabi crops is done as follows
Spread the dried or liquid form of the insecticide and fungicide on a pot or a polythene sheet and spread & mix it well on the seeds. In this type of treatment, make sure that the chemicals stick to the seeds properly.
The second method of seed treatment is to treat the seeds by mixing the chemicals with a sticking agent and that mixture sticks on the seeds
It is very important to take some precautions while doing seed treatment.
In treatment, firstly use fungicide and then use insecticide and lastly use any biological product like (PSB / Rhizobium).
Use only the recommended quantity of insecticide, fungicide. Use treated seeds on the same day of sowing.
Do not store seeds after treatment.
Use water as required to coat the chemical on the required quantity of seeds.