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How is inter-cropping beneficial to farmers?

Inter-cropping maintains the diversity and stability of fields.
It reduces the use of chemical/fertilizer.
It helps in Weed suppression and reduces the chances of diseases and insect attacks.
In inter-cropping, Vegetable crops give high production in short duration.

Collect and destroy infested fruits.
Flytraps (pheromone traps) can be set to prevent egg-laying by fruit flies.
Maize plant s grown in the field are effective as flies rest on such tall plants.
Deep ploughing should be done to expose hibernating stages of fruit flies.
spray dichlorvos 76% EC 250 to 500ml/acre or
Lambda Cyhalothrin 4.9% CS @ 200 ml/acre. or
Profenofos 40%EC + Cypermethrin 4 %EC @ 400 ml/acre

The worm bores into the fruits and sucks the sap.
Infected fruits fall after decaying.
These flies prefer tender fruits for egg-laying.
The fly bore a hole into the fruit to lay her eggs inside it. Fruit Juice can be seen coming out from these holes.
This also results in distorted and malformed.
The maggots feed on the pulp of fruits as well as on the immature seeds and cause premature dropping of fruits.

The cucumber plant is a shallow-rooted crop and thus it doesn’t require any deep intercultural operations.
Prune all secondary shoots up to 5 nodes, to improve yield & fruit quality.
Staking of plants is helpful in checking the rotting of fruits.

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.

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.

one should apply About 8-10 t/acre of FYM at the time of field preparation.
30 kg Urea, 70kg single super phosphate and 35 kg muriate of potash per acre is applied at the time of last ploughing.
Another 30 kg urea should be top dressed in two split doses, one at 8-10 leaf stage and second at the flowering stage.

To prevent bulb splitting in onion, Use uniform irrigation and fertilization practices.
Use of slow-growing onion varieties can reduce the incidences of this disorder.
Spray 00:00: 50 @ 1kg/acre.

Uneven irrigation of onion fields increases the chances of this disorder.
Fields that are over irrigated, allowed to dry completely and then over irrigated again often have many split bulbs.
Bulb mites are frequently associated with bulb splitting.
The first symptom is observed as the rotting of the basal portion of the bulb.
Secondary growth of the affected bulb often occurs when several small bulbs protruded from the spilt basal portion.

17/02/2020

A simple 1-page form is designed to obtain basic data from the bank’s record under PM Kisan Yojna, and only one copy of the land record with details of crop sown would be required for that.
This form will be available with an ad published in all leading newspapers across India and the same can be cut & filled by the beneficiaries.
You can also download the form from websites of all Scheduled Commercial Banks, the website of the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare and PM-KISAN.
Common Service Centres have been given permission to fill up the form & transmit the same to the concerned bank.