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Must follow these useful tips of smart farming

20/03/2022 Friday March 18th, 2022

Smart farming means that farmers can do farming using new ways of farming and products that benefit farming.
Under smart farming, the requirement of pest diseases and nutritional crops is met through technology.
This type of farming uses mobile applications, large data, artificial intelligence and machines.
The use of information communication technology in agriculture also gives the way for the advancement of the farmer.
Young farmers are making extensive improvements in their farming by adopting smart farming techniques instead of traditional farming.
The cost of the farmer is low and the yield is high through smart farming.

You can also do smart farming through Gramophone app. Connect your farm with the “My Kheti” option today and get timely information on disease and pest outbreaks throughout the crop cycle.

What is Integrated Pest Management and its main measures

19/03/2022 Friday March 18th, 2022

Integrated pest management (IPM) is the equitable use of more and more methods capable of keeping the damage caused by pests, diseases and weeds, etc., which damage crops below the economic level. In this eco-friendly practical, mechanical, biological and chemical plant protection activities are used interchangeably when necessary.

Major Measures:

Practical control includes deep tillage, adoption of crop rotation, seed and plant treatment, timely sowing, use of resistant varieties, weed control, proper use of nutrients and irrigation water etc.
In mechanical control, install light traps and pheromone traps, destroy disease and insect affected parts etc.
Use of predatory and parasitic insects in biological activities.
In chemical control, in the presence of predatory and parasitic insects, in order to protect them, use relatively safe insecticidal chemicals only when there is more outbreak of pests than the economic limit.

Benefits of planting cowpea crop as fodder in summer

19/03/2022 Friday March 18th, 2022

During the summer season, the problem of green fodder for livestock increases, to avoid this situation the livestock owner should sow cowpea.
Cowpea is used as nutritious fodder for animals.
Cowpea is the quickest growing pulses fodder crop,
The cowpea crop is more nutritious and fully digestible and the grass is mixed with it during sowing which also increases its nutritional value.
Cowpea is also served as a vegetable and as the availability of green vegetables is reduced during the rainy days, the production of cowpea for green vegetables brings good profits to the farmers.
Apart from this, cowpea is also a leguminous crop that increases the availability of a nutrient called nitrogen in the soil.
For summer crops, farmers can sow it in the month of March-April.

How to keep the wheat crop stored in the warehouse safe from rats

18/03/2022 Friday March 18th, 2022

Wheat crops are being harvested continuously at this time. In the meantime, farmers store their wheat crop in the warehouse instead of selling it in the market.
Rats are the biggest problem in wheat stock.
To avoid this, it is very important to keep the following things in mind before storage-
Clean the store before keeping the wheat crop in the storage.
If there is already an infestation of rats in the store, it is crucial to de-infest the place before storing.
If there is an attack of rats after wheat storage, then rats can be controlled by mixing medicine in wheat or gram flour.
Mixing one gram of zinc phosphide and nineteen grams of sattu or flour with a little mustard oil and making a tablet of about 10 grams should be kept in the number of rats on the way.
The rat is of suspicious nature. Therefore, the poisonous feed, rat feed and pellet should be kept alternately.

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Important tips to be done after 65 days of onion transplanting

17/03/2022 Thursday March 17th, 2022

To get a good crop of onion, it is very important to have knowledge of fertilizer and nutrition management. With the use of manure, fertilizers and agrochemicals in balanced quantities, we will be able to get disease and pest free crops with high quality.
If your onion crop is around 65 days after transplanting, then the following recommendations can be used –
Spray water soluble fertilizer 00:52:34 @ 1 kg + Abamectin 1.9% EC [Abasin] 150 ml + Kitazin 48% EC @ 400 ml per acre.
By the application of this spray, the crop can be protected from problems like mites and purple spot disease. Application of water-soluble fertilizer 00:52:34 helps in bulb formation.

With the sowing of the crop, connect your farm with the My Farm section of Gramophone app and keep on getting the exact advice and solutions related to smart agriculture throughout the crop cycle. Share this article with your friends with the share button below.

Important tips to be done after 75 days of onion transplanting

16/03/2022 Wednesday March 16th, 2022

To get a good crop of onion, it is very important to have knowledge of fertilizer and nutrition management. With the use of manure, fertilizers and agrochemicals in balanced quantities, we will be able to get disease and pest free crops with high quality.
If your onion crop is around 75 days after transplanting, then the following recommendations can be used –
Spray water soluble fertilizer @ 00:00:50 @ 1 kg + Tebuconazole 25.9% EC [Folicure] 200 ml + Cyantraniliprol 10.26% OD [Benevia] 250 ml/acre.
Along with the above spraying, make sure to spray the silicone-based sticker [silico max] 5 ml mixed with 15 litres of water.
For biological control, Pseudomonas [Monas curb] can be sprayed @ 250 gm/acre.

With the sowing of the crop, connect your farm with the My Farm section of Gramophone app and keep on getting the exact advice and solutions related to smart agriculture throughout the crop cycle. Share this article with your friends with the share button below.

Honeybee is a good pollinator in cucurbits

15/03/2022 Tuesday March 15th, 2022

In the Zaid season, cucurbit crops like bottle gourd, sponge gourd, ridge gourd, pumpkin, pointed gourd, watermelon, muskmelon etc. are cultivated in a large area.
Due to the change in weather and temperature, after flowering in cucurbitaceous crops, there is a lot of problem at the time of fruit development.
Honeybees play a very important role in natural pollination in cucurbits.
In the cucurbit crop, through honeybees, pollination is done up to 80%.
A large number of hairs are found in the body of honeybees, which pick up pollen grains. After this, they collect pollen and transport it to the female flowers.
Honeybees do not cause any harm to the crops.
The action of fertilization is completed after the above-mentioned action. After this, the process of conversion starts from flower to fruit in the plant.

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Weed management in Green gram crop

15/03/2022 Tuesday March 15th, 2022

Green gram is included in the major pulses crops and it is a short duration crop with good production.
It is necessary to keep the crops free from weeds in the initial stage between 15 and 45 days after sowing.
Generally weeding is effectively done by two hands weeding, first 15-20 and second within 30-35 days.
If mechanical/physical control measures are not adopted, the spray of Pendimethalin 38.7% [Dhanu Top Super] @ 700 ml/acre can be done within 0-3 days of sowing the seeds.
At 10 – 15 days after sowing of moong seed, In 2-4 leaf stage of weed, spray Imazethapyr 10% SL + Surfactant [Weedblock] @ 300 ml per acre.

With the sowing of the crop, connect your farm with the My Farm section of Gramophone app and keep on getting the exact advice and solutions related to smart agriculture throughout the crop cycle. Share this article with your friends with the share button below.

Why we should not burn the crop residues of wheat

14/03/2022 Monday March 14th, 2022

After harvesting the wheat crop, the stems and stalks are destroyed by fire. Nearly 0.5% nitrogen, phosphorus 0.6% and potash 0.8% are found in stems and stalks, which is destroyed by burning.
Wheat produces one and a half times the grain of the crop, if 40 quintals of wheat are produced in 1 hectare, then the quantity of straw will be 60 quintals and the straw will have 30 kg nitrogen, 36 kg phosphorus and 90 kg potash per hectare, Which will be about 3,000 rupees on the basis of the current price, which is destroyed by burning.
By burning crop residues, microorganisms and earthworms present in the soil are destroyed, which adversely affects the fertility and physical condition of the land.
The ground becomes hard, due to which the water holding capacity of the land decreases, so the crops dry quickly.
Chemical reactions in the soil are also affected, such as the ratio of carbon-nitrogen and carbon-phosphorus is deteriorated, due to which the plants are not able to get the nutrients available.

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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.

With the sowing of the crop, connect your farm with the My Farm section of Gramophone app and keep on getting the exact advice and solutions related to smart agriculture throughout the crop cycle. Share this article with your friends with the share button below.

Smart farming means that farmers can do farming using new ways of farming and products that benefit farming.

Under smart farming, the requirement of pest diseases and nutritional crops is met through technology.

This type of farming uses mobile applications, large data, artificial intelligence and machines.

The use of information communication technology in agriculture also gives the way for the advancement of the farmer.

Young farmers are making extensive improvements in their farming by adopting smart farming techniques instead of traditional farming.

The cost of the farmer is low and the yield is high through smart farming.

Major Measures:

Practical control includes deep tillage, adoption of crop rotation, seed and plant treatment, timely sowing, use of resistant varieties, weed control, proper use of nutrients and irrigation water etc.

In mechanical control, install light traps and pheromone traps, destroy disease and insect affected parts etc.

Use of predatory and parasitic insects in biological activities.

In chemical control, in the presence of predatory and parasitic insects, in order to protect them, use relatively safe insecticidal chemicals only when there is more outbreak of pests than the economic limit.

During the summer season, the problem of green fodder for livestock increases, to avoid this situation the livestock owner should sow cowpea.

Cowpea is used as nutritious fodder for animals.

Cowpea is the quickest growing pulses fodder crop,

The cowpea crop is more nutritious and fully digestible and the grass is mixed with it during sowing which also increases its nutritional value.

Cowpea is also served as a vegetable and as the availability of green vegetables is reduced during the rainy days, the production of cowpea for green vegetables brings good profits to the farmers.

Apart from this, cowpea is also a leguminous crop that increases the availability of a nutrient called nitrogen in the soil.

For summer crops, farmers can sow it in the month of March-April.

Wheat crops are being harvested continuously at this time. In the meantime, farmers store their wheat crop in the warehouse instead of selling it in the market.

Rats are the biggest problem in wheat stock.

To avoid this, it is very important to keep the following things in mind before storage-

Clean the store before keeping the wheat crop in the storage.

If there is already an infestation of rats in the store, it is crucial to de-infest the place before storing.

If there is an attack of rats after wheat storage, then rats can be controlled by mixing medicine in wheat or gram flour.

Mixing one gram of zinc phosphide and nineteen grams of sattu or flour with a little mustard oil and making a tablet of about 10 grams should be kept in the number of rats on the way.

The rat is of suspicious nature. Therefore, the poisonous feed, rat feed and pellet should be kept alternately.

To get a good crop of onion, it is very important to have knowledge of fertilizer and nutrition management. With the use of manure, fertilizers and agrochemicals in balanced quantities, we will be able to get disease and pest free crops with high quality.

If your onion crop is around 65 days after transplanting, then the following recommendations can be used –

Spray water soluble fertilizer 00:52:34 @ 1 kg + Abamectin 1.9% EC [Abasin] 150 ml + Kitazin 48% EC @ 400 ml per acre.

By the application of this spray, the crop can be protected from problems like mites and purple spot disease. Application of water-soluble fertilizer 00:52:34 helps in bulb formation.

To get a good crop of onion, it is very important to have knowledge of fertilizer and nutrition management. With the use of manure, fertilizers and agrochemicals in balanced quantities, we will be able to get disease and pest free crops with high quality.

If your onion crop is around 75 days after transplanting, then the following recommendations can be used –

Spray water soluble fertilizer @ 00:00:50 @ 1 kg + Tebuconazole 25.9% EC [Folicure] 200 ml + Cyantraniliprol 10.26% OD [Benevia] 250 ml/acre.

Along with the above spraying, make sure to spray the silicone-based sticker [silico max] 5 ml mixed with 15 litres of water.

For biological control, Pseudomonas [Monas curb] can be sprayed @ 250 gm/acre.

In the Zaid season, cucurbit crops like bottle gourd, sponge gourd, ridge gourd, pumpkin, pointed gourd, watermelon, muskmelon etc. are cultivated in a large area.

Due to the change in weather and temperature, after flowering in cucurbitaceous crops, there is a lot of problem at the time of fruit development.

Honeybees play a very important role in natural pollination in cucurbits.

In the cucurbit crop, through honeybees, pollination is done up to 80%.

A large number of hairs are found in the body of honeybees, which pick up pollen grains. After this, they collect pollen and transport it to the female flowers.

Honeybees do not cause any harm to the crops.

The action of fertilization is completed after the above-mentioned action. After this, the process of conversion starts from flower to fruit in the plant.

Green gram is included in the major pulses crops and it is a short duration crop with good production.

It is necessary to keep the crops free from weeds in the initial stage between 15 and 45 days after sowing.

Generally weeding is effectively done by two hands weeding, first 15-20 and second within 30-35 days.

If mechanical/physical control measures are not adopted, the spray of Pendimethalin 38.7% [Dhanu Top Super] @ 700 ml/acre can be done within 0-3 days of sowing the seeds.

At 10 – 15 days after sowing of moong seed, In 2-4 leaf stage of weed, spray Imazethapyr 10% SL + Surfactant [Weedblock] @ 300 ml per acre.

After harvesting the wheat crop, the stems and stalks are destroyed by fire. Nearly 0.5% nitrogen, phosphorus 0.6% and potash 0.8% are found in stems and stalks, which is destroyed by burning.

By burning crop residues, microorganisms and earthworms present in the soil are destroyed, which adversely affects the fertility and physical condition of the land.

The ground becomes hard, due to which the water holding capacity of the land decreases, so the crops dry quickly.

Chemical reactions in the soil are also affected, such as the ratio of carbon-nitrogen and carbon-phosphorus is deteriorated, due to which the plants are not able to get the nutrients available.

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.