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Necessary work to be done after 45-50 days of watermelon sowing

13/03/2022 Sunday March 13th, 2022

After 45 days of sowing, the watermelon crop is in the flower to fruiting stage, at this time the following recommendations can be used –
In fertilizer management 45-50 days after sowing, apply in soil at the rate of 19:19:19 @ 50 kg or 20:20:20 @ 50 kg + MOP 50 kg per acre.
To get more fruit at this stage of plants and for the problem of caterpillar, fruit fly, whitefly, downy mildew disease etc. Spray Pyriproxyfen 10% + Bifenthrin 10% EC [Prudens] 250 ml + Emamectin Benzoate 5% SG [EmaNova] 100 gm + Gibberellic acid 0.001% [Nova Max] 300 ml + Azoxystrobin 11% + Tebuconazole 18.3% SC [Custodia] 300 ml per acre.
For the good management of fruit flies must use 10 pheromone traps per acre.

Know, the causes and control measures of bulb splitting in garlic

10/03/2022 Thursday March 10th, 2022

The first symptoms of bulb splitting appear at the base of the plant.
The main reason for this problem is irregular irrigation in the crop.
Do not irrigate the field for a few days after excessive irrigation, due to which the field appears completely dry and due to repeated irritation again, the bulb starts splitting.
Due to continuous irregular irrigation in the garlic field, this disorder increases.
Bulb splitting can be prevented by uniform irrigation and the application of adequate amounts of fertilizers.
This disorder can be reduced by using slow-growing garlic varieties.

Fertilizer management at the time of sowing in moong crop

10/03/2022 Thursday March 10th, 2022

At the time of sowing of moong, there is a special need for essential elements like phosphorus, potash, zinc, sulfur etc. for good germination and growth of the crop.
For these, the following products can be used at the time of sowing-
In this, DAP 40 kg + MOP 20 kg + Zinc Sulphate @ 5 kg per acre should be mixed in the soil before sowing through broadcasting in the empty field.
Along with this, use special ‘Moong Samridhi Kit’ as necessary, in this kit you will get everything together which is needed by the moong crop.
This kit is used to increase fertility, Several products are included in this kit, they are – PK Bacteria [Pro Combimax], Trichoderma viridi [Combat], Rhizobium [Jaivatika -R], Humic Acid + Seaweed + Amino + Micorrhyza [Maxxmyco]

You can do this agricultural work in the month of March

08/03/2022 Tuesday March 8th, 2022

March month is very important both for harvesting and sowing new crops. Therefore, this month farmers can get high production by adopting the following agricultural activities:

The mustard crop should be harvested after 75% of the beans are golden. In this stage, the amount of oil in the grains remains high.
Harvesting is suitable when there is about 15 % moisture in gram grains.
Harvesting should be done when wheat grains become hard after ripening and moisture content is less than 20%.
Those farmers, who have planted paddy in the field, should maintain the level of water in the field. After 25 to 30 days of transplanting, control weeds and apply urea.
The farmer who has only one or two irrigation facilities can do summer moong or urad cultivation after harvesting the rabi crop.
If you want to sow sugarcane or sunflower, then complete this work by 15-20 March. Between two rows of sugarcane, two rows of urad or moong or one row of okra can be planted as a mixed crop.
To provide easy fodder to the animals in summer, some special varieties of maize, cowpea and sorghum can be sown at this time.
In vegetables, you can sow cucurbits and you can transplant tomato, chilli, brinjal.

By taking these measures, increase the number of flowers in the watermelon crop

07/03/2022 Monday March 7th, 2022

The sowing of watermelon crops has been completed for about a month.
After the completion of one month, the flowering stage starts in the watermelon crop.
At the stage of flowering, it is very necessary to take measures for good flower production and to prevent flowers from dropping, by adopting these following measures, good flower production can be increased and prevented from dropping –
Spray Homobrassinolide [Double] @ 100 ml/acre to ensure good flowering and avoid flower drops.
Simultaneously spray of Gibberellic acid [Novamaxx] @ 300 ml/acre for good growth of watermelon plant.

Follow these tips to prevent fruit cracking in tomato crops

07/03/2022 Monday March 7th, 2022

Fruit cracking is a major problem in tomato crops which is also known as blossom end rot. Mainly this problem is seen due to the deficiency of calcium and boron, but there can be many other reasons which are as follows –
Due to irregular irrigation.
Due to high fluctuations in temperature, the use of mulch in the field is beneficial for this.
Due to giving more nitrogen and less potash in the crop, for this use balanced manure and fertilizers in the field.
If the tomato is planted in light loamy soil, then this problem is more visible because this type of soil is generally deficient in boron, for its management following suggestions can be adopted.
For this, calcium ammonium nitrate @ 20 kg/acre can be applied to the soil after 25 days of transplanting.
Use Calbor @ 5 kg per acre after 40 days of transplanting.
Apply calcium nitrate @ 10 kg per acre after 80 days of transplanting.
If symptoms of deficiency are visible, Spray twicely Calcium EDTA @ 200 gm + Boron 20 @ 200 gm / acre.

Benefits of using Pseudomonas fluorescens in cucurbits

05/03/2022 Saturday March 5th, 2022

Pseudomonas fluorescens act as an organic fungicide and bactericide.
It protects the cucurbits crop from fungal, bacterial, soil-borne and seed-borne diseases.
Protects the crop from adverse effects on crops due to changing weather.
Most importantly, it plays a very important role in controlling gummy stem blight disease in cucurbitaceous crops.
In cucurbits crops, it also plays a very important role in the good root, fruit and flower development.
Pseudomonas fluorescens assisted in the prevention of diseases affecting cucurbits crops such as damping off, root rot, wilt, stem rot, fruit rot, scorching, etc.

Aphid control in bitter gourd crop

04/03/2022 Monday September 25th, 2023

Aphid is under the category of sucking pests, this pest greatly affects the growth of the plant by sucking the cell sap of the bitter gourd’s leaves.
The leaves of the affected plant turn yellow and shrink. In the stage of excessive infestation, the leaves dry up and gradually the whole plant dries up.
Aphids release a type of honeydew, which causes black fungus infestation.
To control this, spray imidacloprid 17.8% SL [Confidor] @ 100 ml/acre or Acephate 75 % SP [Asataf] @ 300 gram/acre or Thiamantoxam 25% WG [ThiaNova 25 ] @ 100 gram/acre.
Use Beauveria Bassiana [Bave curb] @ 250 gram/acre as biological treatment.

Measures for identification and control of dieback disease in lemon

03/03/2022 Thursday March 3rd, 2022

Among the fruits grown in India, citrus species have a prominent place, Malta, kinnow, sweet orange, Mandarin, lemon, lime etc. come under citrus fruits. Dieback disease is one of the major diseases in these fruit trees, it is also known as wither tip. This disease causes great damage to the lemon crop.
Symptoms- The main symptoms of this disease are yellowing of leaves, drying of branches from top to bottom, stunted plant growth, flowers and fruits being reduced, and finally, the plant dries up completely. The roots of the plants appear black in colour.
Management – Cut the diseased branches and coat them with a Bordeaux mixture or copper fungicide.
Spray micronutrients in the months of February and April.
Make a solution of 100 grams of urea fertilizer per 10 litres of water and spray it to increase the energy of plants.
Spray Pseudomonas fluorescens [Monas kerb] @ 50gm/tank.
Spray with Copper oxychloride 50% WP [Blue copper] @ 3 gm or Mancozeb 75 % WP [M45] @ 2 gm per liter of water.
Re-spray the fungicide if necessary at 15 to 20 days intervals.

Damage to tomato crop by fruit borer insect

02/03/2022 Wednesday March 2nd, 2022

Fruit borer insects cause a lot of economic damage to the tomato crop.
Pest identification: The adult of this insect is brown and the caterpillar is green in colour. The most harmful stage of this insect is the caterpillar.
Symptoms of damage: Initially, the caterpillars attack the soft leaves and later penetrate the fruit and destroy the entire fruit from inside.
One caterpillar is capable of destroying approx 8 -10 fruits.
Control: For chemical control Emamectin Benzoate 5% SG [EmaNova] @ 100 gm or Flubendamide 50% WG [Takumi] @ 100 gm or Chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC [Cosco] @ 60 ml or Novaluran 5.25% + Emamectin Benzoate 0.9% SC [ Barazide] @ 600 ml/acre.
For biological control, use Beauveria bassiana [Bave curb] @ 500 gm per acre.
Use of pheromone traps @ 10 per acre as a mechanical control.

After 45 days of sowing, the watermelon crop is in the flower to fruiting stage, at this time the following recommendations can be used –

In fertilizer management 45-50 days after sowing, apply in soil at the rate of 19:19:19 @ 50 kg or 20:20:20 @ 50 kg + MOP 50 kg per acre.

For the good management of fruit flies must use 10 pheromone traps per acre.

The first symptoms of bulb splitting appear at the base of the plant.

The main reason for this problem is irregular irrigation in the crop.

Do not irrigate the field for a few days after excessive irrigation, due to which the field appears completely dry and due to repeated irritation again, the bulb starts splitting.

Due to continuous irregular irrigation in the garlic field, this disorder increases.

Bulb splitting can be prevented by uniform irrigation and the application of adequate amounts of fertilizers.

This disorder can be reduced by using slow-growing garlic varieties.

At the time of sowing of moong, there is a special need for essential elements like phosphorus, potash, zinc, sulfur etc. for good germination and growth of the crop.

For these, the following products can be used at the time of sowing-

In this, DAP 40 kg + MOP 20 kg + Zinc Sulphate @ 5 kg per acre should be mixed in the soil before sowing through broadcasting in the empty field.

Along with this, use special ‘Moong Samridhi Kit’ as necessary, in this kit you will get everything together which is needed by the moong crop.

This kit is used to increase fertility, Several products are included in this kit, they are – PK Bacteria [Pro Combimax], Trichoderma viridi [Combat], Rhizobium [Jaivatika -R], Humic Acid + Seaweed + Amino + Micorrhyza [Maxxmyco]

March month is very important both for harvesting and sowing new crops. Therefore, this month farmers can get high production by adopting the following agricultural activities:

The mustard crop should be harvested after 75% of the beans are golden. In this stage, the amount of oil in the grains remains high.

Harvesting is suitable when there is about 15 % moisture in gram grains.

Harvesting should be done when wheat grains become hard after ripening and moisture content is less than 20%.

Those farmers, who have planted paddy in the field, should maintain the level of water in the field. After 25 to 30 days of transplanting, control weeds and apply urea.

The farmer who has only one or two irrigation facilities can do summer moong or urad cultivation after harvesting the rabi crop.

If you want to sow sugarcane or sunflower, then complete this work by 15-20 March. Between two rows of sugarcane, two rows of urad or moong or one row of okra can be planted as a mixed crop.

To provide easy fodder to the animals in summer, some special varieties of maize, cowpea and sorghum can be sown at this time.

In vegetables, you can sow cucurbits and you can transplant tomato, chilli, brinjal.

The sowing of watermelon crops has been completed for about a month.

After the completion of one month, the flowering stage starts in the watermelon crop.

At the stage of flowering, it is very necessary to take measures for good flower production and to prevent flowers from dropping, by adopting these following measures, good flower production can be increased and prevented from dropping –

Spray Homobrassinolide [Double] @ 100 ml/acre to ensure good flowering and avoid flower drops.

Simultaneously spray of Gibberellic acid [Novamaxx] @ 300 ml/acre for good growth of watermelon plant.

Fruit cracking is a major problem in tomato crops which is also known as blossom end rot. Mainly this problem is seen due to the deficiency of calcium and boron, but there can be many other reasons which are as follows –

Due to irregular irrigation.

Due to high fluctuations in temperature, the use of mulch in the field is beneficial for this.

Due to giving more nitrogen and less potash in the crop, for this use balanced manure and fertilizers in the field.

If the tomato is planted in light loamy soil, then this problem is more visible because this type of soil is generally deficient in boron, for its management following suggestions can be adopted.

For this, calcium ammonium nitrate @ 20 kg/acre can be applied to the soil after 25 days of transplanting.

Use Calbor @ 5 kg per acre after 40 days of transplanting.

Apply calcium nitrate @ 10 kg per acre after 80 days of transplanting.

If symptoms of deficiency are visible, Spray twicely Calcium EDTA @ 200 gm + Boron 20 @ 200 gm / acre.

Pseudomonas fluorescens act as an organic fungicide and bactericide.

It protects the cucurbits crop from fungal, bacterial, soil-borne and seed-borne diseases.

Protects the crop from adverse effects on crops due to changing weather.

Most importantly, it plays a very important role in controlling gummy stem blight disease in cucurbitaceous crops.

In cucurbits crops, it also plays a very important role in the good root, fruit and flower development.

Pseudomonas fluorescens assisted in the prevention of diseases affecting cucurbits crops such as damping off, root rot, wilt, stem rot, fruit rot, scorching, etc.

Aphid is under the category of sucking pests, this pest greatly affects the growth of the plant by sucking the cell sap of the bitter gourd’s leaves.

The leaves of the affected plant turn yellow and shrink. In the stage of excessive infestation, the leaves dry up and gradually the whole plant dries up.

Aphids release a type of honeydew, which causes black fungus infestation.

To control this, spray imidacloprid 17.8% SL [Confidor] @ 100 ml/acre or Acephate 75 % SP [Asataf] @ 300 gram/acre or Thiamantoxam 25% WG [ThiaNova 25 ] @ 100 gram/acre.

Use Beauveria Bassiana [Bave curb] @ 250 gram/acre as biological treatment.

Symptoms- The main symptoms of this disease are yellowing of leaves, drying of branches from top to bottom, stunted plant growth, flowers and fruits being reduced, and finally, the plant dries up completely. The roots of the plants appear black in colour.

Management – Cut the diseased branches and coat them with a Bordeaux mixture or copper fungicide.

Spray micronutrients in the months of February and April.

Make a solution of 100 grams of urea fertilizer per 10 litres of water and spray it to increase the energy of plants.

Spray Pseudomonas fluorescens [Monas kerb] @ 50gm/tank.

Spray with Copper oxychloride 50% WP [Blue copper] @ 3 gm or Mancozeb 75 % WP [M45] @ 2 gm per liter of water.

Re-spray the fungicide if necessary at 15 to 20 days intervals.

Fruit borer insects cause a lot of economic damage to the tomato crop.

Pest identification: The adult of this insect is brown and the caterpillar is green in colour. The most harmful stage of this insect is the caterpillar.

Symptoms of damage: Initially, the caterpillars attack the soft leaves and later penetrate the fruit and destroy the entire fruit from inside.

One caterpillar is capable of destroying approx 8 -10 fruits.

Control: For chemical control Emamectin Benzoate 5% SG [EmaNova] @ 100 gm or Flubendamide 50% WG [Takumi] @ 100 gm or Chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC [Cosco] @ 60 ml or Novaluran 5.25% + Emamectin Benzoate 0.9% SC [ Barazide] @ 600 ml/acre.

For biological control, use Beauveria bassiana [Bave curb] @ 500 gm per acre.

Use of pheromone traps @ 10 per acre as a mechanical control.