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Identification symptoms of Mastitis disease

09/04/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Mastitis disease is a bacterial disease that mostly occurs in milch cow, buffalo, and goat.
In animal’s udder swelling, heat and light red color are the main symptoms of this disease.
The way of extracting milk from excessive infection becomes very precise and pus appears.
Consuming milk from infected animals can cause many diseases in humans. So this disease becomes more important.

Narendra Tomar spoke to state agriculture ministers through video conferencing

09/04/2020

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday interacted with agriculture ministers of all the states through video conferencing and took stock of the agriculture-related work being done during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to reduce the infection of coronavirus.

The video conference was held at Krishi Bhavan on Wednesday and Union Agriculture Minister Tomar was accompanied by Union Ministers of State for Agriculture Purushottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary. He discussed issues like harvesting and purchasing of rabi crops with the state agriculture ministers. Along with this, he also discussed the arrangement of ensuring the availability of fertilizers and seeds and other essential items for sowing the next season’s crop. A day earlier, the Union Agriculture Minister also interacted with the officials of the department through video conferencing.

At present, the harvesting season of many rabi crops including wheat, mustard, the gram is going on, as well as the sowing of Zayed crops like cotton, chili, and moong. Harvesting or sowing of crops cannot be stopped, therefore, the government has allowed it even during the lockdown and is taking new steps on it daily.

Source: ANI

4.91 crore farmer families received Rs. 9826 crore under Kisan Samman Nidhi

08/04/2020

Currently, there is a lockdown to prevent coronavirus infection across the country, due to which poor farmer families are facing a shortage of money. In view of the same shortage, the Central Government made a huge relief package of Rs 1.70 lakh crore under the “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana” and under the “Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana” an installment of 2000 rupees in the first week of April to help the farmer families, The announcement was made on behalf of the government.

Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, 8.7 crore farmer families will be given money, out of which the government has released the installment of this financial year to about 4.91 crore farmers from March 24 to April 03. 9826 crore has been provided to 4.91 crore farmer families under it. The Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar gave information about the amount given to the farmers.

Problem and solution of Purple blotch disease in Onion

08/04/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

The disease begins at the edges of old leaves. Initially, small, oval spots which later become purple-brown and the edges of these spots are yellow.
When the spots start to grow, then the yellow edges spread upwards and form wounds on the bottom.
The stems of leaves and flowers wither and the plant dries up.
2-3-years crop cycle should be adopted with other non-tuber crops.
To prevent this disease, spraying Kitazin 48 EC 80 ml or Chlorothalonil 75 WP 300 g or Carbendazim 12 + Mancozeb 63 WP 500 g @ 200 ml/acre with 200 liters of water is sprayed.

Basal dose and first irrigation

08/04/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Just after sowing gives first irrigation and applies a basal dose of fertilizer as below. Mix all these & spread over the soil- DAP- 40 kg, MoP- 20 kg, Zinc sulfate 5 kg per acre. To know more give a missed call on our toll-free number 18003157566.

Effect of Corona on the sale of egg-chicken

08/04/2020

Thousands of such messages are being spread in social media, in which this deadly virus is spread by consuming meat.
Due to the fear of illness, people gave up eating non-vegetarian food, so it directly affected the poultry and meat industry.
According to the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC)- Egg prices are about 15 percent lower than the previous year.
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy has released an advisory stating that the spread of the Corona virus through poultry is only a rumor, there has been no such case in the whole world, in which it can be said that Corona has an effect on it.

Madhya Pradesh government made a roadmap for wheat procurement amid lockdown

07/04/2020

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has given a big relief by clearing the doubt about wheat sale among farmers amid the ongoing lockdown on the Corona global epidemic. Under this, the procurement of wheat at the minimum support price in the state will start from April 15. During this time social distance will also be taken care of, and every day only selected farmers will be called through SMS.

Significantly, last year there were 3545 procurement centers in the state, which has been increased to 3813 this time and other new centers are also being built. This time the total number of procurement centers will be up to 4000.

On this whole issue, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has said that the lockdown is expected to open in the state on April 14. After this, Rabi procurement work will be started in the state from April 15. He said that the procurement work has to be finished by 31 May. Time is short. Therefore, making such a system, so that wheat, gram, mustard and lentil crops of farmers can be easily purchased at the support price.

How to seed treatment with Rhizobium culture

07/04/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Add 250 grams of jaggery to 1 liter of water and heat it for about 15 minutes and make a solution.
When the solution cool, add 3 packets (600 grams) of Rhizobium culture to it and stir gently with a wooden stick.
This solution should be sprinkled slowly on the seeds in such a way that the layer of solution sticks to all the seeds equally. It is enough for 10 kg of seeds.
Wear the gloves in hands and mix the seeds well and dry them in a shady place. Make sure that the seeds do not stick together.
Sowing the treated seeds soon.

Whitefly resistant transgenic variety of cotton developed

07/04/2020

Scientists of National Botanical Research Institute – Lucknow have developed whitefly resistant variety of Cotton.
Researchers identified 250 plants from the plant’s biodiversity to find protein molecules that are toxic to the whitefly.
When the whitefly was exposed to the pesticide protein in the laboratory, its life cycle changed adversely.
This variety will be tested from April to October in the center under Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
If the anti-white fly qualities are included in cotton, if they are found effective even in tests conducted in the field, then this variety can be given to farmers for cultivation.

Big relief in lockdown: Government will buy rabi crops from farmers’ home

06/04/2020

Farmers are facing a range of difficulties due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to the Corona crisis. Actually the present time is of harvesting of Rabi crops and government procurement, but during the lockdown on this issue, the government has taken the initiative to give a big relief to the farmers.

To tackle this problem, the Punjab government has taken an important decision. The Punjab government is preparing to go to the villages to purchase crops to prevent congestion in the mandis during the procurement of rabi crops. During this time, priority will be given to those villages which are located at a distance of about 1 to 2 km from the mandis.

Officers of Agriculture and Food Departments have been instructed by the Punjab Government to soon find a way to go to the farmers of the villages and buy wheat. It has been suggested to send workers to farmers’ homes to help the farmers of the villages located away from the mandis.