Important points for wheat farmer?

Within 30 to 35 days of sowing, weeding should be done once or twice as per requirement. Keeping in view the prevalence of narrow and broad water weeds in wheat crop, Management of broad and narrow water weeds

Mung pest Managemt

 

In summer, farmers sow moong as a cash crop. If the pest is not controlled at the right time in the crop, the production and quality of the crop is severely affected.

White fly: Its infestation starts from one leaf stage of the plant which keeps on raging till the green stage of the crop. Babies and adults suck sap from the plant. In severe outbreaks, the leaves are twisted. This fly plays an important role in the spread of yellow mosaic virus disease.

How to store Onion and Garlic?

In our country, onion and garlic are part of our daily diet, and it is used as a vegetable and spice. At this time, harvesting of onion and garlic is almost complete and farmers are storing garlic. Onion and garlic do not go bad, so take care of these special things.

Bacterial Panicle Blight in Paddy

This disease is mainly found in paddy which can reduce the yield up to 50 Percent. India and other countries of Aisa

White fly attack over Cotton Crop

Whitefly in cotton

After a long time, farmers have to face a big problem in cotton crops due to the whitefly insect. Cotton growing farmers were very happy to see the crop health before a few weeks ago but now whitefly is a major problem in cotton-growing farmers.

Identification of whitefly?

They have three stages Nymph, Pupa, and Adult. In Nymph they were greenish-yellow with an oval outline and when reaching the Pupa stage they preset at under surface of leaves and finally at an Adult stage the insect body is yellow with white bloom fly.

Symptoms of damage?

On the leaves chlorotic spots and irregular yellowing of leaves tissue. After some days the leaves and veins were dying and defoliation of leaves. When the pests population is high its damages the whole crop from 15-25 percent loss in yield. The bools and buds of crop poor in growth and opening. And transmit the plants leaves into leaf curl virus.  

More About whitefly and favorable conditions you can watch this video

This pest mostly attacks at high humidity and high-temperature areas like Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and some parts of Maharashtra. Whitefly attacks those cotton crops where low rainfall occurs in monsoon season. They can not manage easily if the population is 10 per leaf. We have to manage them with the chemical methods. But it can be controlled by organically like a spray of neem oil-based products.

Management of Whitefly

They can be controlled by spraying anyone below insecticides.

Acetamiprid 1g/l 

Ulala( Flamicamid) 80gram/Acre

Lano(Phyrifoxifen) 400-500 ml/Acre

Polo( Difenthorofen) 20g/acre

Acephate+ Imida

Fipronil 

SLR 525

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Mealybug Attack in Cotton/Narma

Cotton is a very important crop for the Kharif season after the paddy. In Paddy and cotton crop there are different types of pest and diseases which affect the crop n few days and increase the loss of a farmer. Like one of them is Mealybug. This article you will read about the mealybug management. 

Mealybug not only attacks the cotton, but it will also attack different crops like sugarcane, guava, brinjal. tomato etc. 

Yellowing of Green Gram

Green Gram is a major growing pulses in India. More than 50 lakh Hectares in India every year. It is also known as moong/Mung in India.

Green Gram

Mango Powdery Mildew

The powdery mildew-The scientific name of this disease is Oidium mangiferae/ Acrosporum mangiferae

Leaf Curl Problem in Cotton Crop

In Indian agriculture, the Kharif season is very important in which two crops play an important role. One is Paddy and another is Cotton on which most of the farmers were depend and cultivated in India. In cotton crops, some problem comes in crops, especially in early sowing cotton crop. 

Damage cotton plant

Whitefly inTomato

Tomato is a very important vegetable at every time. So today we are going to read on Whitefly in Tomato. 

Pest management in Onion

Onion is the most common bulb vegetable grown in India. Pest management is very important in this crop for better yield and good quality. This article will help you to find out the onion pest and control measure. Let us see the major pests of onion.

Green Onion

Pests of Peral Millet (Bajra)

In the agriculture sector, a farmer puts its all efforts to provide food to the world. As all the things in agriculture done through the hard work and unbelievable efforts of farmers. After the month of efforts every year, the farmer's crop is reduced due to insects or pest attacks in the crop which affect the quality as well as quantity. In this article, we provide the major insects and their management in Cumbu(Pearl Millet) and Bajra in India. 

Pearl Millet ( Bajra)

Maize (Zea Mays) Pest

Maize Pest Management

Maize Pest 

We were aware of the maize/corn is the most cultivated crop in the world and due to maize pests and diseases around 10 percent of the crop yield per hectare is affected every year.  This article help to reduce the pest attack over maize crop. There are some pests of maize like armyworm in maize that will affect more than 50 percent. Lets us see the most pests of maize and their management. 

Corn/Maize Pest and Control

Maize Diseases

Maize Diseases and Management

Maize Diseases

Maize/corn is one of the main crops of farmers after paddy and wheat. The maize is grown all over the world. There are some maize diseases which will affect the quality and quantity of the crop. This article will help you with maize disease symptoms. Other than this you will read about maize diseases and management.

Here is the maize disease list or we can say that major diseases of maize and their management.

1. Downy Mildew

Borer Problem in Grams, Farmer Worried?

Borer Symptoms, Identification, and Management in Gram Crop

We are growing many crops and a farmer puts him all efforts to get the best quality with high production. But due to the insect pest attack, weeds, disease a farmer has to face damage in production as well as quality.

Insect in Gram

In this article we read about the borer problem in grams, maybe in red gram, green gram, black gram borer is the major problem in grams. Mainly the borers are three types who cause more damage.
1. Gram Pod Borer (Helicoverpa armigera)

Protect Your Tomato From Leaf Curl Virus

Tomato Leaf Curl Virus

In India Tomato is one of the major growing vegetables, because the profit by this vegetable is more as compared to other vegetables and the cost is low. As we have seen from years due to leaf curl virus in tomato can damage from 17% to 76% plants. Resulted in low production and damage to the fruit.

Leaf Curl Tomato Symptom

Symptoms of Damage Leaf Curl

Importance and Method of Seed Treatment for Kharif Season

Just like seed selection is important for a good crop, it is equally important to treat the seeds. Continuous scientific progress in modern farming can be benefited only when pure and good quality seeds of improved varieties are selected and sown before sowing. Seed treatment is a very important process to increase the germination of seeds, protect from pests and diseases. Mostly, farmers do crop sowing without doing seed treatment, so crop production is likely to be 8-10% less. There is a need for publicity for the farmers to adopt the important process of seed treatment so that information about its benefits in the crops should reach the farmers. The Government of India and the State Government are working to promote 100 percent seed treatment. In which Agricultural University, Agricultural Science Center, Atma, Industrial Organization and NGO. Together they are playing an important role.

Dust treatment method: - Under this, seed treatment is done with dried powder or powder. Seed treatment by Carbendazim for example.

Karma /slurry treatment method: - The use of a mixture of water-soluble powder is called karma/slurry treatment.
Fluid treatment method: - The use of chemicals used in liquid form is called fluid treatment.

Dry  Method:
To treat the seeds under this method, an appropriate amount of seeds and medicine are put in plastic drums and rotated for 10-15 minutes. Due to which the light layer of medicine evenly climbs over the seed.

About wheat rust, area of damage, symptoms and its control measures.

Wheat

About Wheat Yellow Rust: Yellow rust disease is mainly found in the foothills of the mountains, but for the last few years, the outbreak of this disease has been found in the plains of North India. There is a possibility of yellow rust disease occurring in the wheat crops in January and February. Low temperature and high humidity are favorable for yellow rust disease of wheat. When touched by hand, the spores of the fungus from the stripes look like yellow in the hand. There is no yield due to this disease of the crop and farmers have to wash their hands from the crop. Nearly three lakh hectares of the wheat crop was damaged in 2011 due to the outbreak of yellow ocher in the Terai regions of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in northern India.

Symptoms of yellow rust disease: Symptoms of this disease are often seen in cold and humid areas, as well as in the crops grown around Poplar and White. Yellowing of leaves is not only yellow rust, due to yellow leaves, but there may also be a lack of nutrients in the crop, an excessive amount of salt in the ground and stagnation of water. In yellow rust disease, the yellow powder is formed on the leaves of wheat, which becomes yellow when hands are touched. Clothes also turn yellow by visiting such fields. The yellowing of leaves is not only called yellow rust, but it is a symptom of powdery yellow material on the hand. A yellow stripe appears on the upper surface of the leaves, which gradually turns the entire leaves yellow.

Insect attack over Gram and Pulses

Insect

In India among all pulse crops black gram, Bengal gram and cowpea are frequently grown as short-duration crops in Kharif followed by rabi crops like jowar, wheat, Bengal gram, and safflower. It is drought-resistant and suitable for dryland farming. The crop plays an important role in sustaining soil fertility by improving soil physical properties and fixing atmospheric nitrogen. The low yield of green grams in our country may be attributed to a wide variety of factors, among which the ravage of insect pests is paramount.

A number of insect pests belonging to different orders have been recorded on green grams from various parts of the world. Most pests of a green gram are cutworm,  aphids, thrips, Bihar hairy caterpillar, tobacco caterpillar, gram caterpillar,  leaf-eating caterpillar and pod borer. are some insects which affect quality and quantity.  Spray insecticides like emamectin benzoate 5 SG at 0.25ml/l or spinosad 45 SC at 0.25ml/liter or lambda-cyhalothrin 5 EC 1.00ml/liter, dimethoate 30EC or chlorpyriphos 20 EC at 2ml/liter for effective management of the pest.

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