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Prevention of pink rot disease in onion crop

22/01/2022 Saturday January 22nd, 2022

It is a major disease in the onion crop.
Its main symptom is the rotting of onion roots turning pink, due to which the development of the tuber is greatly affected, the tuber remains small.
It is very important to use the following products to prevent this.
Use Kitazin 48% EC @ 400 ml/acre or Thiophanate Methyl 70% W/W @ 300 gm/ acre
Use Trichoderma viride @ 500 gm/acre as soil treatment and Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 250 gm/acre as spray as biological treatment.

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.

Are your potato tubers cracking, know the management measures

22/01/2022 Monday September 25th, 2023

When the potato crop reaches 80-90 days, then the problem of tuber cracking is mainly seen.
Excessive nitrogen, a bad soil structure, boron deficiency and low planting densities are the main causes of this disorder. Apart from this, due to irregular irrigation in the field, i.e. more irrigation in the field, then allowing it to dry completely and repeat more irrigation also causes the tubers to crack.
Due to the presence of cut marks, sore spots on the tubers, fungal diseases and insect outbreaks are more likely.
Potatoes should be of good shiny, large size to get a good market price for crop production.
Spray Boron 500 gm + Calcium Nitrate at the rate of 1 kg per acre for a good shine and to prevent cracking in potatoes.
Uniform irrigation and the application of the right amount of fertilizers can prevent tubers from cracking.
In areas where this problem is seen every year, using slow-growing varieties can also reduce this disorder.

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.

Earn millions by cultivating mushrooms

21/01/2022 Friday January 21st, 2022

From the last few years, the demand for mushrooms in the Indian market has increased very rapidly. According to the demand in the market, its production is not according to that, in such a situation, farmers can earn good profits by cultivating mushrooms.
One room is enough for mushroom cultivation. The farmer who is short of space can earn a good profit by adopting this farming.
There are about 10,000 species of edible mushrooms found in the world, out of which only 70 species are considered suitable for cultivation.
In the Indian environment, mainly five types of edible mushrooms are commercially cultivated. In which mainly, there are white button mushroom, dhingri mushroom, milky (milky) mushroom, paddy straw mushroom, shiitake mushroom.
Dhingri Mushroom which is popularly known as Oyster Mushroom. Most of people like to eat oyster mushrooms.The appropriate time for the cultivation of Dhingri mushrooms is from September to November 15.
Due to its high nutritional and medicinal properties, the utility of mushroom is more in both food and medicine.

Somewhere the weather is beneficial and somewhere it is getting fatal

20/01/2022 Thursday January 20th, 2022

These days in the state, the weather is proving to be a profitable deal for the farmers and sometimes a loss. Winter rain is like nectar for most of the crops. But the farmers are worried about crop failure due to the hailstorm along with winter rain.
Experts say that light rain in the rabi season is like nectar for crops while hailstorms are harmful to crops.
Rainfall in winter is uniform in all areas. It also helps farmers to save on irrigation expenses. At the same time, it decreases the temperature. Due to this, the chances of frost getting reduced. It does not damage the crops.
Rainfall helps in the production of crops. Because nitrogen also comes with rainwater. Due to this, the need for urea fertilizer for the farmers is reduced. That’s where irrigation gives relief. However, if it rains excessively, it is harmful.

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.

Winter rain is beneficial for wheat crop

20/01/2022 Thursday January 20th, 2022

Winter rain is beneficial for the wheat crop

Winter rain, which is commonly known as Mawtha, Mawtha is no less than nectar for the farmers of wheat, but if there is a hailstorm with heavy rain, there is nothing special in wheat but there is a lot of negative effect in other crops.
The farmers have benefited well from the wheat crop due to the rains in the last few days. In the total cost, the water, electricity expenditure on one irrigation of the crop, along with the cost of labourers is also saved per acre.
The farmers who had given the first water to the standing wheat crop in the field got water for the second time and the farmers who had sown late wheat required water first, then it got the first water.
The farmer brothers, who had sown unirrigated wheat without using fertilizers, can use urea at the rate of 20 kg per acre at this time, due to the moisture in the soil, urea will dissolve slowly and will be available to the plants and of course on the yield will have a positive effect.

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.

Necessary spraying management in 50-60 days in onion crop

20/01/2022 Saturday January 22nd, 2022

Along with a proper supply of nutrients in the 50-60 day crop of onion, special care has to be taken to protect against insect and fungal diseases.
In this stage, for nutritional management, use calcium nitrate @ 10 kg + potash @ 25 kg/acre as soil treatment.
For nutrient management, 0:52:34 @ 1 kg per acre can also be used in the form of a spray.
For protection from insect and fungal diseases, spray Thiamenthoxam 12.6% + Lambda Cyhalothrin 9.5% ZC @ 80 ml + Chlorothalonil 75% WP @ 400 gm/acre.
Spraying of the silicone-based sticker (Silicomaxx) @ 5 ml per tank, mixed with suitable insecticide and fungicide, is beneficial in case of change in weather like fog, dew, rain.

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.

Major agricultural works to be done in the second fortnight of January

19/01/2022 Wednesday January 19th, 2022

In the second fortnight of January, most of the crops are in their critical growth stage. At this time, special care is required in crops from irrigation to plant protection. Along with this, there is also a possibility of fog, frost and hail due to the sharp drop in temperature. To protect the crops from these ill-effects and to get full production, the following improved cropping practices can be adopted –
At present, the most important Rabi crop, wheat, is in the stage of tillering and somewhere in the jointing. Irrigation is very important in both these stages.
Gram: During the formation of pods in gram, there is a possibility of an outbreak of fungal diseases and borer. For its management, spray Hexaconazole 5% Sc @ 400 ml + Emamectin Benzoate 5% SG @ 100 gm/acre.
Potato – To increase the size of the tubers, spray at 00:00:50 @ 1 kg/acre and mix it with paclobutrazol 40% SC @ 30 ml/acre 10-15 days before potato harvesting.
Cucurbits: Spray Azoxystrobin 11% + Tebuconazole 18.3% SC at 300 ml/acre for management of downy mildew in cucurbits.
Watermelon: Watermelon is one such fruit that is planted in the summer season, but January is considered the best for sowing or nursery preparation of watermelon.
Keep irrigating after every harvesting of berseem, lucerne and oats, it improves growth.

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.

Know the measures of Congress grass control

17/01/2022 Monday January 17th, 2022

Carrot grass is a weed whose scientific name is Parthenium hysterophorus. This weed looks exactly like carrot plants, it is also known by the names Congress grass and in regional language safed topi, tej chandani etc.
By mechanical means, in moist soil, this weed can be controlled to a great extent by uprooting it by hand or with a scabbard, collecting and burning it before flowering.
Good quality manure can be prepared by burying the uprooted plants in pits of 3 to 6 feet by mixing it with cow dung.
For chemical control of this grass, use 2,4 D @ 40 ml/pump, when carrot grass plants are at the 3-4 leaf stage, spraying can be done.
In the non cropped area, Spray Glyphosate 41% SL @ 225 ml per pump mixed with clean water. For better results add in 250 gm ammonium sulphate and spray it.
For biological control beetle pests are capable of destroying carrot grass well, and do not have any adverse effect on other useful crops. In the first fortnight of June to October, the beetle insect is more active and about 3 to 4 lakh beetle insects are sufficient for 1acre.
Sowing of some plants like cassia tora, marigold, wild amaranthus in April-May before monsoon reduces the transmission of carrot grass to the affected area.

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Management of sucking pests in cucurbitaceae crops

16/01/2022 Monday January 17th, 2022

In the cucurbitaceae family, mainly bottle gourd, bitter gourd, sponge gourd, ridge gourd, pumpkin, pointed gourd, ash gourd and cucumber etc. come in this category.
Due to the changes in the weather, these crops are affected by sucking insects like thrips, aphids, jassids, mites, whitefly etc. All these pests cause a lot of damage to the crop by sucking the sap from the leaves. It is necessary to manage them at the right time.
For thrips management use Profenofos 50 % EC @ 500 ml or Acephate 75 %SP @ 300 gm or Lambda Cyhalothrin 4.9 % CS @ 200 ml or Fipronil 5% SC @ 400 ml/acre.
For Aphid/ jassid management use Acephate 50 %+ Imidacloprid 1.8 %SP @ 400 gm or Acetamiprid 20 % SP @ 100 gm or Imidacloprid 17.8% SL @ 100 ml/acre.
For white fly management use Diafenthiuron 50 % WP @ 250 gm or Flonicamid 50% WG @ 60 gm or Acetamiprid 20 % SP @ 100 gm/acre.
For Mites management use Propargite 57% EC @ 400 ml or Spiromesifen 22.9% SC @ 250 ml or Abamectin 1.9 % EC @ 150 ml/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.

In wheat crops, necessary spraying management at the time of earhead emergence

16/01/2022 Sunday January 16th, 2022

In wheat crops, in 60 -90 days, spikes develop and grains get filled in spikes.
In this stage, crop management is very important in wheat crops.
For good growth and spike formation, spray Homobrassinolide 0.04% @ 100 ml + 00:52:34 @ 1 kg/acre and After 10 – 15 days, to fill good grain in spikes, spray 00:00:50 @ 1 kg/acre.
In place of 00:52:34 use majorsol 500 gm/acre as a spray.
Wheat crop is more prone to fungal diseases during the spike stage, for this spray Hexaconazole 5% SC 400 ml/acre and after 7 -10 days spray Propiconazole 25% EC @ 200 ml/acre.
Use Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 250 gm/acre as biological treatment.
If caterpillar infestation is observed at this time, a spray of Emamectin Benzoate @ 5% SG @ 100 gm per acre can be done.

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.

It is a major disease in the onion crop.

Its main symptom is the rotting of onion roots turning pink, due to which the development of the tuber is greatly affected, the tuber remains small.

It is very important to use the following products to prevent this.

Use Kitazin 48% EC @ 400 ml/acre or Thiophanate Methyl 70% W/W @ 300 gm/ acre

Use Trichoderma viride @ 500 gm/acre as soil treatment and Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 250 gm/acre as spray as biological treatment.

When the potato crop reaches 80-90 days, then the problem of tuber cracking is mainly seen.

Due to the presence of cut marks, sore spots on the tubers, fungal diseases and insect outbreaks are more likely.

Potatoes should be of good shiny, large size to get a good market price for crop production.

Spray Boron 500 gm + Calcium Nitrate at the rate of 1 kg per acre for a good shine and to prevent cracking in potatoes.

Uniform irrigation and the application of the right amount of fertilizers can prevent tubers from cracking.

In areas where this problem is seen every year, using slow-growing varieties can also reduce this disorder.

From the last few years, the demand for mushrooms in the Indian market has increased very rapidly. According to the demand in the market, its production is not according to that, in such a situation, farmers can earn good profits by cultivating mushrooms.

One room is enough for mushroom cultivation. The farmer who is short of space can earn a good profit by adopting this farming.

There are about 10,000 species of edible mushrooms found in the world, out of which only 70 species are considered suitable for cultivation.

In the Indian environment, mainly five types of edible mushrooms are commercially cultivated. In which mainly, there are white button mushroom, dhingri mushroom, milky (milky) mushroom, paddy straw mushroom, shiitake mushroom.

Dhingri Mushroom which is popularly known as Oyster Mushroom. Most of people like to eat oyster mushrooms.The appropriate time for the cultivation of Dhingri mushrooms is from September to November 15.

Due to its high nutritional and medicinal properties, the utility of mushroom is more in both food and medicine.

These days in the state, the weather is proving to be a profitable deal for the farmers and sometimes a loss. Winter rain is like nectar for most of the crops. But the farmers are worried about crop failure due to the hailstorm along with winter rain.

Experts say that light rain in the rabi season is like nectar for crops while hailstorms are harmful to crops.

Rainfall in winter is uniform in all areas. It also helps farmers to save on irrigation expenses. At the same time, it decreases the temperature. Due to this, the chances of frost getting reduced. It does not damage the crops.

Rainfall helps in the production of crops. Because nitrogen also comes with rainwater. Due to this, the need for urea fertilizer for the farmers is reduced. That’s where irrigation gives relief. However, if it rains excessively, it is harmful.

Winter rain, which is commonly known as Mawtha, Mawtha is no less than nectar for the farmers of wheat, but if there is a hailstorm with heavy rain, there is nothing special in wheat but there is a lot of negative effect in other crops.

The farmers have benefited well from the wheat crop due to the rains in the last few days. In the total cost, the water, electricity expenditure on one irrigation of the crop, along with the cost of labourers is also saved per acre.

The farmers who had given the first water to the standing wheat crop in the field got water for the second time and the farmers who had sown late wheat required water first, then it got the first water.

The farmer brothers, who had sown unirrigated wheat without using fertilizers, can use urea at the rate of 20 kg per acre at this time, due to the moisture in the soil, urea will dissolve slowly and will be available to the plants and of course on the yield will have a positive effect.

Along with a proper supply of nutrients in the 50-60 day crop of onion, special care has to be taken to protect against insect and fungal diseases.

In this stage, for nutritional management, use calcium nitrate @ 10 kg + potash @ 25 kg/acre as soil treatment.

For nutrient management, 0:52:34 @ 1 kg per acre can also be used in the form of a spray.

For protection from insect and fungal diseases, spray Thiamenthoxam 12.6% + Lambda Cyhalothrin 9.5% ZC @ 80 ml + Chlorothalonil 75% WP @ 400 gm/acre.

Spraying of the silicone-based sticker (Silicomaxx) @ 5 ml per tank, mixed with suitable insecticide and fungicide, is beneficial in case of change in weather like fog, dew, rain.

At present, the most important Rabi crop, wheat, is in the stage of tillering and somewhere in the jointing. Irrigation is very important in both these stages.

Gram: During the formation of pods in gram, there is a possibility of an outbreak of fungal diseases and borer. For its management, spray Hexaconazole 5% Sc @ 400 ml + Emamectin Benzoate 5% SG @ 100 gm/acre.

Potato – To increase the size of the tubers, spray at 00:00:50 @ 1 kg/acre and mix it with paclobutrazol 40% SC @ 30 ml/acre 10-15 days before potato harvesting.

Cucurbits: Spray Azoxystrobin 11% + Tebuconazole 18.3% SC at 300 ml/acre for management of downy mildew in cucurbits.

Watermelon: Watermelon is one such fruit that is planted in the summer season, but January is considered the best for sowing or nursery preparation of watermelon.

Keep irrigating after every harvesting of berseem, lucerne and oats, it improves growth.

Carrot grass is a weed whose scientific name is Parthenium hysterophorus. This weed looks exactly like carrot plants, it is also known by the names Congress grass and in regional language safed topi, tej chandani etc.

By mechanical means, in moist soil, this weed can be controlled to a great extent by uprooting it by hand or with a scabbard, collecting and burning it before flowering.

Good quality manure can be prepared by burying the uprooted plants in pits of 3 to 6 feet by mixing it with cow dung.

For chemical control of this grass, use 2,4 D @ 40 ml/pump, when carrot grass plants are at the 3-4 leaf stage, spraying can be done.

In the non cropped area, Spray Glyphosate 41% SL @ 225 ml per pump mixed with clean water. For better results add in 250 gm ammonium sulphate and spray it.

For biological control beetle pests are capable of destroying carrot grass well, and do not have any adverse effect on other useful crops. In the first fortnight of June to October, the beetle insect is more active and about 3 to 4 lakh beetle insects are sufficient for 1acre.

Sowing of some plants like cassia tora, marigold, wild amaranthus in April-May before monsoon reduces the transmission of carrot grass to the affected area.

In the cucurbitaceae family, mainly bottle gourd, bitter gourd, sponge gourd, ridge gourd, pumpkin, pointed gourd, ash gourd and cucumber etc. come in this category.

Due to the changes in the weather, these crops are affected by sucking insects like thrips, aphids, jassids, mites, whitefly etc. All these pests cause a lot of damage to the crop by sucking the sap from the leaves. It is necessary to manage them at the right time.

For thrips management use Profenofos 50 % EC @ 500 ml or Acephate 75 %SP @ 300 gm or Lambda Cyhalothrin 4.9 % CS @ 200 ml or Fipronil 5% SC @ 400 ml/acre.

For Aphid/ jassid management use Acephate 50 %+ Imidacloprid 1.8 %SP @ 400 gm or Acetamiprid 20 % SP @ 100 gm or Imidacloprid 17.8% SL @ 100 ml/acre.

For white fly management use Diafenthiuron 50 % WP @ 250 gm or Flonicamid 50% WG @ 60 gm or Acetamiprid 20 % SP @ 100 gm/acre.

For Mites management use Propargite 57% EC @ 400 ml or Spiromesifen 22.9% SC @ 250 ml or Abamectin 1.9 % EC @ 150 ml/acre.

In wheat crops, in 60 -90 days, spikes develop and grains get filled in spikes.

In this stage, crop management is very important in wheat crops.

For good growth and spike formation, spray Homobrassinolide 0.04% @ 100 ml + 00:52:34 @ 1 kg/acre and After 10 – 15 days, to fill good grain in spikes, spray 00:00:50 @ 1 kg/acre.

In place of 00:52:34 use majorsol 500 gm/acre as a spray.

Wheat crop is more prone to fungal diseases during the spike stage, for this spray Hexaconazole 5% SC 400 ml/acre and after 7 -10 days spray Propiconazole 25% EC @ 200 ml/acre.

Use Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 250 gm/acre as biological treatment.

If caterpillar infestation is observed at this time, a spray of Emamectin Benzoate @ 5% SG @ 100 gm per acre can be done.