Nutrition management and spray management in 15 days of transplanting of onion is very important for good production.
With the proper nutrient management, nutrients are properly used by the onion plants and the roots of the onion crop spread well in the ground also developing immunity against diseases.
Urea @ 30 kg / acre + sulfur 90% @ 10 kg / acre should be mixed with soil and broadcast in the field before sowing.
Urea is a source of nitrogen as well as sulfur. It plays a very important role in prevention of fungal diseases as well as in nutrient supply.
For insect control, spray Fipronil @ 5% SC @ 400 ml / acre.
Spray Humic acid @ 100 gram / acre for good root growth, spread well in the ground.
Since the start of Gramophone in the year 2016, since then more than 5 lakh farmers have been associated with Gramophone and this association is also increasing the prosperity of the farmers. One of this prosperous farmer is Shekhar Pemaji Chaudhary, a resident of village Pipri under Bhikangaon tehsil of Khargone district.
A year and a half ago, when Team Gramophone met Shekhar Pemaji Chaudhary, he showed the green fields of his bitter gourd and told that he got his farm soil tested on the advice of Gramophone, and with this, he earned about 8 lakhs from the bitter gourd crop. Nearly one and a half years after this initial success, Shekhar has become a prosperous farmer and has proved to be a role model for other farmers around him.
Recently, when the Team Gramophone once again came to meet Shekhar, he told a very inspiring story behind his prosperity. He told how in the last year and a half, he cultivated in his six acres of fields with the help of his hard work and the advice of Gramophone and earned 25 lakhs annually. He also said that with this income, he built a house of 16 lakhs and bought a car of 8 lakhs. Explain that in the total income of Shekhar ji 25 lakh, the agricultural expenditure of about 12 lakh comes and they get 13 lakh profit every year.
This story of Shekhar ji is an inspiration for all the farmers. Other farmers can also join Gramophone like Shekhar ji. To connect with Gramophone, you can either miss call on toll-free number 18003157566 or login to the Gramophone Krishi Mitra app.toll free
In potato, it is very important to manage nutrition in 15 days of sowing.
As potato is a tuber crop it requires more nutrients and is prone to insect-borne and fungal-borne diseases with a high infestation.
In 15 days of sowing, the potato crop is in its early stage of growth, and nutrition management for good growth and development also causes infestation of insect-borne and fungal borne diseases.
For pest management: – Thiamethoxam 12.6% + Lambda Cyhalothrin @ 9.5% ZC @ 80 ml / acre or Imamactin Benzoate @ 5% SG @ 100 g / acre
For fungal diseases: – Spraying of Thiophanate Methyl 70% W/w 70% W / W @ 300 gram/ acre or Chlorothalonil 75% WP @ 300 gram / acre
As a biological treatment, spray Trichoderma viride @ 500 gram / acre or Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 250 gram / acre.
For nutritional management: – Spray of seaweed extract @ 400 ml / acre or Gibberellic acid @ 300 ml / acre.
The potato crop is the main rabi crop, due to excessive moisture left in the soil after the rainy season after the sowing of potato crop weeds starts growing in large numbers.
All types of weeds can be controlled by the timely use of appropriate weedicide.
1-3 days after sowing: – For control of weeds, use Pendimethalin 38.7% CS @ 700 ml/acre should be sprayed 1-3 days after sowing.
In this way, spray can control the weeds that grow in the early sowing stage.
Second spraying after sowing: – Metribuzin 70% WP @ 100 gm per acre 3-4 days after sowing or 5 cm growth of potato plant.
Last spray (for narrow leaves) : – 20-30 days after sowing as final spray by spray Propaquizafop 10% EC or Quizalofop ethyl 5% EC @ 400 ml / acre.
A few weeks ago, to curb the rising prices of onions, the central government banned the export of onions. Now in this episode, the government has also banned the export of onion seeds till further orders. The government has taken this decision to maintain onion availability in the country.
Information about this decision has been given by the Foreign Trade Directorate. In a notification issued by the Directorate, it was stated that onion seed exports have been put in the banned category, earlier it was in the restricted category. This means that onion seed exports are now completely banned.
A huge variety of macro and micronutrients are found naturally in the soil, due to the growth of more weeds, these nutrients are not readily available to onion and garlic crops.
This causes a deficiency of nutrients in the crops and affects the total yield of onion and garlic.
Timely weed management is very important, for these use following products.
Pendimethalin 38.7% CS is recommended for effective weed control in garlic within 3 days of sowing at the rate of 700 ml / acre,
Propaquizafop 5% + Oxyfluorfen 12% EC @ 250-350 ml / acre is used within 25–25 days of sowing and 40–45 days of sowing.
Spray of Oxyfluorfen 23.5% EC @ 100 ml / acre + Propaquizafop 10% EC @ 300 ml / acre or quizalofop ethyl 5% EC @ 300 ml / acre within 20 to 25 days of sowing.
Aphid (Mahu) Symptoms: – Aphid (Mahu) is a small insect that sucks the leaves and causing the leaves to shrink and turn yellow
Later the leaves get stiff and hard and after some time it dries and falls.
In the aphis infested pea plant, the plant does not develop properly and appears diseased.
Management: – Imidacloprid 17.8% SL. @ 100 ml / acre or Thiamethoxam 25% WG @ 100 gram / acre, or Acephate 50% + Imidacloprid 1.8% SP @ 400 gram / acre or Acetamiprid 20% SP @ 100 gm / acre for the control of sucking pest .
Biological treatment: – As a biological treatment, spray Beauveria Bassiana @ 500 gram / acre.
