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How to control thrips in cotton crop

22/07/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Thrips are small and soft-bodied light yellow insects, both stages i.e, nymphs and adults, of this pest cause damage.
They are usually found on the upper side of the leaves but if there is an increase in their growth they can be found on the lower side of the leaves as well.
They attack the leaves, the buds, and flowers of the crop with their sharp mouthparts.
Thrips infestation can cause the leaves to turn brown from the edges and the leaf of the affected plant appears to be dry and withered.
The leaves become discolored and curl upwards.
For prevention of thrips, use of FIPRONIL 5% SC @ 400 ml / acre or LAMBDA CYHALOTHRIN 4.9 % CS @ 300 ml / acre or SPINOSAD 45 % SC @ 60 ml / acre.

Mites management in chilli crop

21/07/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Symptoms of mites: – These pests are small in size and are usually red/white in color and like to attack soft parts of chilli crop like leaves, flower buds, and twigs.
Plants infected with mites have visible webs on them. This pest saps the juice of tender parts of the plant which weakens it, making the leaves curl affecting the growth of the plant and eventually causing the plant to die.
Management: – For control of Mites in chilli crop, spraying of PROPARGITE 57%EC 57% EC @ 400 ml / acre or SPIROMESIFEN 22.9% SC @ 200 ml / acre or ABAMECTIN 1.9 % EC@ 150 ml / acre.

Farmers of 18 districts of Madhya Pradesh are getting worried due to the monsoon’s Uncertainty

21/07/2020

In Madhya Pradesh, the monsoon was knocked on time, but for the last few days, monsoon is being Uncertain in many districts of the state. Due to this, lakhs of farmers of the state are upset. Farmers say that if the monsoon does not get good rain in the coming week, then they will suffer heavy losses. On behalf of the meteorological department based in Bhopal, it has been reported that “Gwalior-Chambal, Bundelkhand, and Mahakaushal areas have received less rainfall. Guna has received less than 7%, Gwalior minus 45%.

Districts like Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior, Bhind, Datia, Guna, Shivpuri, Chhatarpur, Damoh, Sagar, Tikamgarh, Balaghat, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Katni, Dhar, Mandsaur, Shajapur and Hoshangabad have received very less rainfall. In the month of July last year, 643.1 mm of rainfall was recorded in Madhya Pradesh, while 318.6 mm of rain has been recorded since June 1 this year.

Source: Live Hindustan

Management of fall army worm in Maize Crop

21/07/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

This insect hides in piles of soil, straw, weeds during the day, and eats crops overnight. Huge numbers of these insects can be seen in infested farms/crops. This pest tends to damage the entire crop by feeding in a very short time. Hence management/control of this pest is very necessary.
In areas where the infestation of fall armyworm pests is high, spraying any of the following insecticides should be done immediately.
Spray: – LAMBDA CYHALOTHRIN 4.6% + CHLORANTRANILIPROLE 9.3% ZC 100 ml / acre, or CHLORANTRANILIPROLE18.5% SC @ 60 ml / acre, or EMAMECTIN BENZOATE 5% SG @ 100 gram / acre
Biological treatment BEAUVERIA BASSIANA @ 250 gram/acre
In areas where its attack is less, Farmers should place small piles of straw on the border of their farmland or in the middle of the field if possible. During the day the armyworm hides in these straw piles in search of shade. In the evening this straw should be collected and burnt.

Weed management in Soybean crop in 20 to 50 days

20/07/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Soybean is the main Kharif crop and due to continuous rain it is very important to follow timely weed control after sowing of the crop.
After sowing of the Soybean crop, there is an increase in growth of weeds like broad leaf and narrow leaf.
In between day 20 to 50 of the soybean crop, narrow leaf weeds are more harmful, so it is very important to control them. The following products can be used to control these weeds.
Propaquizafop 10% EC @ 400 ml/acre This is a selective herbicide and used to control narrow leaf weeds.
Quizalofop Ethyl 5% EC @ 400 ml/acre is a selective herbicide and used to control narrow leaf weeds.

Farmers of Madhya Pradesh have sown kharif crops in 118 lakh hectare till now

20/07/2020

Monsoon effect: 104% increase in cotton sowing with pulses, oilseed crops

After being at the forefront of the procurement of wheat, now farmers of Madhya Pradesh are now meeting the target set for sowing in the Kharif season as well. The farmers of the state have so far sown Kharif crops in 118 lakh hectares of land. This figure is 80% of the total target set. Soon, the farmers will not only achieve their target up to 100% but will also go ahead of the target. Significantly, this year, a target of sowing 146.31 lakh hectare for the Kharif season.

Sowing of soybean, the main Kharif crop in the state, has been completed up to 97%. The target for the sowing of soybean has been fixed at 57.70 lakh hectare and to date, 56.42 lakh hectare has been sown. Apart from this, the target of crops like groundnut, sesame, cotton has also been almost achieved.

Source: Nai Dunia

Fertilizer management in cotton crop at the time ball formation

20/07/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

In 50-70 days ball formation starts in the cotton crop.
Nutrition management is very important for good ball formation.
For this, using urea – 30 kg / acre, MoP (potash) 30 kg / acre, magnesium sulfate – 10 kg / acre is very important.
Timely nutrition management helps in good ball formation growth and farmers get the produce of high quality from the crop.

Plant growth regulator and its importance

19/07/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Plant growth regulators act as growth regulators for crops.
It plays a very important role in the growth of roots, growth of flowers.
Crops require oxygen and micronutrients for growth, all of these provided by the plant growth regulators.
Crops require very small amounts of these
They act on those parts of crops which play an important role in root development, fruit development, flower production, etc.
The crops that remain small are helpful in the growth by increasing the length of the stems of those crops.
Help to break the dormancy in seeds by cell division.

NABARD to provide Rs. 5000 crore loan to farmers for Kharif farming

19/07/2020 Monday July 20th, 2020

Different financial institutions keep coming up to provide loans to farmers. In this series, loans will be provided to the farmers of the entire country for the cultivation of Kharif crops by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. NABARD has sanctioned a large fund of Rs 5000 crores for this loan.

This loan of 5000 thousand crore rupees will be provided to farmers across the country through Cooperative Bank, Grameen Bank, Micro Financing Institution, and NBFC. Significantly, NABARD has recently celebrated its 59th anniversary. Chief General Manager of the institute Subrata Mandal said these things at a function organized on this occasion.

Subrata Mandal said that “the lockdown has been prohibited on a collection of installments from borrowers for six months. This will provide relief to the farmers. In order to ensure that the farmers do not have cash for farming in the Kharif season, NABARD has 5000 thousand crores has been sanctioned. This amount will be disbursed through various financial institutions in the form of loans to farmers across the country.

Source: Krishi Jagran

Causes of burning and scorching of crop leaves

19/07/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

There can be many reasons for burning crop leaves.
Pest disease and nutritional deficiency are also the cause of burning of leaves.
Any type of pest and insect in the roots like nematode, cutworm, etc., cuts off the roots of the crops, due to which the leaves start falling and scorching.
One of the most common causes of leaf burns and scorching is the disease of roots, due to the infection of fungus in the roots, the roots get damaged and the leaves start burning and scorching.
Another common cause of scorching is the deficiency of nutrients in the soil and due to which the edges of the leaves start drying up.
Some pollutants are found in the air which stick on the surface of the leaves and can burn the edges of the leaf.