Gramophone app is increasing farmers’ income by 40%

Gramophone app is increasing farmers' income by 40%

Since its inception in 2016, so far more than five lakh farmers have joined Gramophone and there have been many positive improvements in their agriculture. Under the guidance of gramophone agricultural experts, there has been a good increase in the income of thousands of farmers. The average income of many farmers is increasing by up to 40%.

Farmer Poonam Chand Sisodia of Khandwa district connected his soybean crop to the Gramophone app at the time of sowing and he got all the necessary advice over the phone. This resulted in a 60% increase in yield. Apart from this, the cost of agriculture also decreased.

Sagar Singh Solanki, also from Khandwa district, reduced his agricultural costs by 21% and increased income by 25% using the gramophone app. Their total profit increased by 37% compared to the earlier.

One such farmer is Vinod Gujjar, resident of Dewas district, for whom Gramophone’s Moong Samriddhi Kit proved like a boon. The yield of the crop sown on 5 acres increased from the earlier 25 quintals to 30 quintals using the kit. With the increase in yield, there was an increase of 38% in income and 100% in profit.

Gramophone’s Soya Samriddhi Kit provided so much good nutrition to the soybean crop of Ramnivas Parmar, another farmer from Dewas, that the profit from the crop increased by 180% in advance and the quality of the yield from the crop was so good that its value in the market Found more than other farmers’ produce.

Like these farmers, lakhs of farmers are taking advantage of Gramophone’s high services and increasing their income as well as reducing their agricultural costs. In just four years, Gramophone has started to achieve the goal set by itself. In the days to come, Gramophone has joined the farmers of the entire country and has set the goal of modern agriculture for Indian agriculture and Indian farmers.

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How to manage garlic crop in 15 days

How to manage garlic crop in 15 days
  • Garlic crop is a tuber crop, due to this it is very important to manage nutrition and diseases in garlic crops.
  • Crop management can be done to protect the crop from fungal diseases such as root rot, stem rot yellowing, etc. for this spray Carbendazim 12% + Mancozeb 63% @ 300 gram / acre or Hexaconazole 5% SC @ 400 ml / acre.
  • To protect garlic crops from sucking pests, spray the Acetate  75% SP @ 300 gram / acre or Bavaria Basiana @ 250 gram / acre as a biological treatment.
  • For a uniform growth  and  good root growth of garlic crop, use Urea @ 25 kg / acre + zinc Sulphate @ 5 kg / acre + Sulfur 90% @ 10 kg / acre broadcast in soil in 15 days of sowing 
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How to manage nutrition at the time of sowing in wheat

How to manage nutrition at the time of sowing in wheat
  • Wheat is the main crop of the rabi season. Nutrition management at the time of the sowing of wheat gives it a good start.
  • Growth of roots is good and tillers emerge very well.
  • At this time, the following products should be used to manage nutrition
  • Use Urea @ 50 kg / acre + DAP @ 20 kg / acre + MOP @ 25 kg / acre
  • Urea is the source of nitrogen, DAP is a source of nitrogen and phosphorus, and MOP supplies the necessary potash, thus the production can be increased by managing nutrition after sowing in the crop of wheat.
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Spray and nutrition and management in 15 days of onion transplanting

Spray and nutrition and management in 15 days of onion transplanting
  • Nutrition management and spray management in 15 days of transplanting of onion is very important for good production.
  • With the proper nutrient management, nutrients are properly used by the onion plants and the roots of the onion crop spread well in the ground also developing  immunity against diseases.
  • Urea @ 30 kg / acre + sulfur 90% @ 10 kg / acre should be mixed with soil and broadcast in the field before sowing.
  • Urea is a source of nitrogen as well as sulfur. It plays a very important role in prevention of fungal diseases as well as in nutrient supply.
  • For insect control, spray Fipronil @ 5% SC @ 400 ml / acre. 
  • Spray Humic acid @ 100 gram / acre for good root growth, spread well in the ground.
  • For fungal diseases spray Carbendazim 12% + Mancozeb 63% @ 300 gram / acre or Thiophanate Methyl 70% W/W@ 300 gram / acre.
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With Gramophone, in just 1.5 years, the annual income of the farmer increased to 25 lakhs

Since the start of Gramophone in the year 2016, since then more than 5 lakh farmers have been associated with Gramophone and this association is also increasing the prosperity of the farmers. One of this prosperous farmer is Shekhar Pemaji Chaudhary, a resident of village Pipri under Bhikangaon tehsil of Khargone district.

A year and a half ago, when Team Gramophone met Shekhar Pemaji Chaudhary, he showed the green fields of his bitter gourd and told that he got his farm soil tested on the advice of Gramophone, and with this, he earned about 8 lakhs from the bitter gourd crop. Nearly one and a half years after this initial success, Shekhar has become a prosperous farmer and has proved to be a role model for other farmers around him.

Recently, when the Team Gramophone once again came to meet Shekhar, he told a very inspiring story behind his prosperity. He told how in the last year and a half, he cultivated in his six acres of fields with the help of his hard work and the advice of Gramophone and earned 25 lakhs annually. He also said that with this income, he built a house of 16 lakhs and bought a car of 8 lakhs. Explain that in the total income of Shekhar ji 25 lakh, the agricultural expenditure of about 12 lakh comes and they get 13 lakh profit every year.

This story of Shekhar ji is an inspiration for all the farmers. Other farmers can also join Gramophone like Shekhar ji. To connect with Gramophone, you can either miss call on toll-free number 18003157566 or login to the Gramophone Krishi Mitra app.toll free

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Spray management in 15 days of potato crop

Spray management in 15 days of potato crop
  • In potato, it is very important to manage nutrition in 15 days of sowing.
  • As potato is a tuber crop it requires more nutrients and is prone to insect-borne and fungal-borne diseases with a high infestation.
  • In 15 days of sowing, the potato crop is in its early stage of growth, and nutrition management for good growth and development also causes infestation of insect-borne and fungal borne diseases.
  • For pest management: – Thiamethoxam 12.6% + Lambda Cyhalothrin @ 9.5% ZC @ 80 ml / acre or Imamactin Benzoate @ 5% SG @ 100 g / acre
  • For fungal diseases: – Spraying of  Thiophanate Methyl 70% W/w 70% W / W @ 300 gram/ acre or Chlorothalonil 75% WP @ 300 gram / acre
  • As a biological treatment, spray Trichoderma viride @ 500 gram  / acre or Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 250 gram / acre.
  • For nutritional management: – Spray of seaweed extract @ 400 ml / acre or Gibberellic acid @ 300 ml / acre.
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Weed Management in Potato Crop

Weed Management in Potato Crop
  • The potato crop is the main rabi crop, due to excessive moisture left in the soil after the rainy season after the sowing of potato crop weeds starts growing in large numbers.
  • All types of weeds can be controlled by the timely use of appropriate weedicide.
  • 1-3 days after sowing: – For control of weeds, use  Pendimethalin 38.7% CS @ 700 ml/acre should be sprayed 1-3 days after sowing.
  • In this way, spray can control the weeds that grow in the early sowing stage.
  • Second spraying after sowing: – Metribuzin 70% WP @ 100 gm per acre 3-4 days after sowing or 5 cm growth of potato plant. 
  • Last spray (for narrow leaves) : – 20-30 days after sowing as final spray by spray  Propaquizafop 10% EC or Quizalofop ethyl  5% EC @ 400 ml / acre.
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Why did the central government ban onion seed exports?

Why did the central government ban onion seed exports

A few weeks ago, to curb the rising prices of onions, the central government banned the export of onions. Now in this episode, the government has also banned the export of onion seeds till further orders. The government has taken this decision to maintain onion availability in the country.

Information about this decision has been given by the Foreign Trade Directorate. In a notification issued by the Directorate, it was stated that onion seed exports have been put in the banned category, earlier it was in the restricted category. This means that onion seed exports are now completely banned.

Source: Krishi Jagran

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Weed management in onion and garlic

Weed management in onion and garlic
  • A huge variety of macro and micronutrients are found naturally in the soil, due to the growth of more weeds, these nutrients are not readily available to onion and garlic crops.
  • This causes a deficiency  of nutrients in the crops and affects the total yield of onion and garlic. 
  • Timely weed management is very important, for these use following products.
  • Pendimethalin 38.7% CS is recommended for effective weed control in garlic within 3 days of sowing at the rate of 700 ml / acre,
  • Propaquizafop 5% + Oxyfluorfen 12% EC @ 250-350 ml / acre is used within   25–25 days of sowing and 40–45 days of sowing.
  • Spray of  Oxyfluorfen 23.5% EC @ 100 ml / acre + Propaquizafop 10% EC @ 300 ml / acre or quizalofop ethyl 5% EC @ 300 ml / acre within  20 to 25 days of  sowing.
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Control of Aphids in Pea

Control of Aphids in Pea
    • Aphid (Mahu) Symptoms: – Aphid (Mahu) is a small insect that sucks the leaves and  causing the leaves to shrink and turn yellow
    • Later the leaves get stiff and hard and after some time it dries and falls.
    • In the aphis infested pea plant, the plant does not develop properly and appears diseased.
    • Management: – Imidacloprid 17.8% SL. @ 100 ml / acre or Thiamethoxam 25% WG @ 100 gram / acre, or Acephate  50% + Imidacloprid 1.8% SP @ 400 gram / acre or Acetamiprid 20% SP  @ 100 gm / acre for the control of sucking pest .
    • Biological treatment: – As a biological treatment, spray Beauveria Bassiana @ 500 gram / acre.
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