Tip of the day – Page 203

Control of thrips in moong

Plants infected with thrips develop spotted appearance on leaves which turn pale-white blotches due to drainage of sap. Due to thrips attack reduces production.
For effective control spray profenofos 50% EC 400 ml/acre or fipronil 5% SC 400 ml/acre or thiamethoxam 25% SG 200 gm/acre after every 10 days interval.
Spray neem seed kernal extract (NSKE) 5% or triazophos @ 350 ml/acre.

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Well-drained silt or loam soil are suited for cultivation.
For rainfed cultivation, soil should be clay in nature and the pH should be 6-8.
Coriander performs well at a temperature range of 20-25oC.
Cool and comparatively dry and frost-free climate is suitable for coriander.

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Wilting, stunting, yellowing of the foliage and finally collapse of the entire plant take place.
Lower leaves may drop first before wilting.
Segment of the lower stem is cut and squeezed bacterial ooze.
Develops adventitious roots from the stem.
Crop rotation with cruciferous vegetable, marigold, and paddy is recommended.
Apply of bleaching powder @ 6 kg/acre before planting.
Use streptomycin sulphate I.P. 90% w/w + Tetracycline Hydrochloride I.P. 10 %w/w 20 gm/acre.
Kasugamycin 3% SL 300 ml/acre.

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The problem of weeds in the muskmelon crop, the main reason for the low production, because it competes for the place, water, and nutrients with the crop in the field.
To adequately control the weeds, plough only as deep as necessary.
Sowing time is also very important.
Deep-rooted weeds should be thrown out by ploughing, hoeing or pulling by hands.
polyethylene mulching is a good idea to avoid the problem of weed in muskmelon field.

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Timely irrigation is quite essential for good growth, flowering, and development of fruits.
Light irrigation is given at an interval of 8-10 days during winter and 5-6 days during summer.
During winter keep the soil moist by light irrigation to protect crop from winter injury.

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Yellow and dry straw is visual indicator.
Shredding, breaking of spikes are overripe.
Most suitable stage is grain moisture of 13-14 %.
Manually harvested by reapers is dried for 3-4 days on threshing floor and threshed.
Always store the seed in new bags in godowns and should be fumigated to keep the attack of stored grain pests.
Grains with less than 10 to 11 % moisture store well.

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Sawdust is the important crop material to use in compost, mulches, growers of small fruit, nursery preparation and soil conditioner.
Wheat straw is a suitable material for mushroom production.
Wheat straw (Bhusa) in the manger either goes to the manure pit to make farmyard manure or it is mixed it with dung to make dung cakes.
For drying and curing, space heating & heating chicken brooders in the Agriculture industry.
Wheat straw is also used in animal feeding.

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The crop is harvested when the grains become hard and the straw becomes yellow dry and brittle.
In recent years in some states harvesting and threshing is done by combine harvester at a large scale.
Cereals are harvested at about 15 percent of the moisture in the grain.
Wheat should be yellow at the time of wheat harvest.
Wheat harvesting, wheat harvesting is done at 110-130 days after sowing.

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Drying harvested crop for five to six days.
After drying, the harvested crop is threshing by thresher.
Before storing, the harvested grains should be well dried.
To avoid the attack of pulse beetle during the storage of gram, dip the bag in 10% Malathion solution.

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