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Good news for farmers, government lifted the ban on onion exports

28/02/2020

To protect the interests of farmers, the government has lifted the six-month-old ban on the export of onions on 26th February. This decision will provide farmers with a big market for their onion crop and thus they can earn more profit. There was a major need for such step as the prices are likely to fall heavily due to bumper production of rabi crops especially onion.

It should be noted that in September 2019, the government had imposed a ban on the export of onions due to the rapid increase in its prices. But the conditions have changed now and the onion rates had stabilized. Along with this, there has been a rapid growth of onions this year in the country, because of which, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has announced to lift the ban on the export of onions.

Farmers can get more production by keeping proper planting in cucumber crop

27/02/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Seeds are sown in furrows at a distance of 1.0-1.5 meter between plants.
When cucumber is trained on bower fallow a spacing of 3*1 m.
When seeds are sown at a distance of 0.5 to 75 meter with 4-6 seed/hole.
In hilly areas, allow only two plants to grow in each hole.

Very Important tips for the storage of wheat crops

24/02/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

The moisture should not be more than 10-12% in the grain for safe storage.
After placing the grain in the buffer, the closet or in the room, two tablets of 3 grams of aluminium phosphide should be kept among each tonne of wheat.

Farmers should sow these varieties of crops in march-April to increase the yield

24/02/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

SN	Crop Name	Important variety (company’s name)
1.	Bitter gourd	Nagesh (Hyveg), Amanshri, US1315 (Nunhems), Akash (VNR)
2.	Ridge gourd	Aarti
3.	Pumpkin	Kohinoor (pahuja), VNR 11 (VNR)
4.	Okara	Radhika, Vinas Plus (Golden), Singham (Nunhems), Shatabdi (Rashi)
5.	coriander	surbhi (Namdhari), LS 800 (pahuja )

Management of Mosaic Virus in chilli

22/02/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

Uproot the infected plants.
Cultivate of resistant/tolerant varieties like Pusa Jwala, Pant C-1, Pusa- Sadabahar, Panjab lal etc.
Spray Acetamiprid 20% SP at the rate of 130gram/acre at regular intervals to reduce the vectors, or
You can also Spray Fipronil 40% + Imidachloprid 40% WG @ 40 gram/acre.

Identification of Mosaic Virus in chili –

22/02/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

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The main symptom of this disease is the appearance of dark green and yellow spots on the leaves.
Another symptom includes the appearance of Light pits and blisters
Yellowing and distortion of younger leaves, followed by conspicuous mosaic.
Severe mottling with light and dark green patches get Scattered all over the leaf surface.
Slight curling, marginal rolling and shortening of leaves are other common symptoms of mosaic virus.
This disease spreads through whitefly.

Tips for Disease-Free Nursery Raising of Vegetables –

21/02/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

choose healthy seeds for showing.
The seeds should be treated with recommended fungicide before sowing.
The continuous raising of the nursery in the same plot should be avoided.
The topsoil of the nursery should be treated with Carbendazim @ 5 gm/square m. area of the soil and the nursery should be drenched with Carbendazim @ 2gm/litre of water fortnightly.
Soil solarization by spreading 250 gauge polythene sheet over the bed for 30 days before sowing in summer season should be done.
Application of bio-control agent Trichoderma viride in soil @ 500 gram/acre is also found effective to control damping-off to a considerable extent.

Some important crops that can be grown under inter-cropping

19/02/2020 Tuesday January 12th, 2021

SN	Maincrop	Intercrop
1.	Soya bean	maize, peagonpea	For intercultural or mixed crops, the growth rate of vegetables, distribution of roots, Nutritious nature, attacks of pests and diseases, market demand etc. should be considered. The cropping system should not be permanent and the weather, pest and diseases attacks, market price and demand and should be changed according to the grower.
2.	Okra	Coriander, spinach
3.	Cotton	groundnut, green gram, black gram maize.
4.	Chilli	radish, carrot.
5.	Mango	onion, Turmeric

Gramophone organised its ‘Field Day’

10/12/2018

On December 08, 2018, Gramophone organized its ‘Field Day’ where current farming practices were compared to the well-researched practices given by the expert agronomists at Gramophone. The objective was to showcase the potential that newer technologies have for farmers. The field experts guided the farmers and kept a track of the crop across the cropping cycle and the results are quite encouraging. Manish Agrawal, a farmer from Bankpura village (Dhamnod) mentions, “I have been taking help from the experts at Gramophone this season and as compared to the other fields, my crop is healthier and I expect an improvement of 30-40% in the yield”.