Agro Meteorological Advisories for PUNE District

      (27 July to 02 August 2010)

Rice

Do puddling in rice plot and sowing of rice seedling should be done as per bricket system, as good amount of rainfall was received.

Tomato

For control of fruit canker and blight ,spray matalaxyl 4% plus mancozeb 64% 250gm plus sticker 100 ml per 100 lit of water

Fruit crops

Care should be taken against water stagnation in fruit crop. Due to water stagnation, the seedling gets affected due to wilt, for control drainage system should open. Proper care should take for papaya plants to avoid the attack of foot rot disease.Mix trichoderma along with the FYM near to stem of plant.

Custer apple

For control of fruit rot, leaf and fruit spot on pomegranate, spray carbadenzim 100 gm and mancozeb 200 gm plus sticker per 100 ml of water.

Soyabean

There is attack of leaf eating caterpillar on soyabean crop.  For control of this pest spray nimark 5% or trizophos 0.4% or chloropyriphos 0.04% or acephate 0.07% or endosulphan 35 EC 715 ml per 500lit of water.  Also there is attack of gurdle bettle pest.  For control of this spray Diamethoate 30% 100 ml or endosulphan 35% 15 ml per 100 lit of water.

Groundnut   and bajra

Uproot the weeds in groundnut and bajra crop.  Give extra soil layer around roots of crops. As per moisture availability give second dose of urea in bajra crop.

 Sugarcane

Apply 50 cartloads of FYM or Compost at time of adsari-sugarcane plantation. Select one of variety from CO-265 (Phule-265), CO-86032.Select 10 to 11 month old and two eye sugarcane for planting. Keep 12 to 15 cm distance between two. Before planting give treatment of 100 lit water + 300 ml Malathion + 100 gm bavistin for 10 min. Apply fertilizer dose of 40 kg nitrogen in form of urea ,85 kg phosphorus in the form of single super phosphate and 85 kg potash in the form of murate of potash and for CO-86032 variety apply fertilizer dose of 50kg nitrogen in form of urea ,100 kg phosphorus in the form of single super phosphate and 100 kg potash in the form of murate of potash at the time of planting per ha.

Due to rainfall and cloudy weather there is attack of wooly aphids on sugarcane crop.  For control of this release 1000 caterpillar of difa-aphidovora micromus or spray solution of methyl dimation 25% 600 ml or Dimethoate 30% 600 ml or endosulphan 35% EC 600 ml in 500 lit of water.

Tur Varieties, which come in early period like vipula, BSMR-853; BSMR-736 are selected for planting. Sow the seed before 10th August.  Use 90 cm X 20 cm spacing and 10 to 12 kg seed rate per hectare. Before sowing, give seed treatment of 2 gm thrium + 2 gm carbedenzin or 5 gm tricoderma and 25 gm rhizobium. Give fertilize dose of 25 kg nitrogen and 50 kg phosphorus at time of sowing.  For inter cropping Tur + Sunflower (1:2) use for sowing. 
Castor For Castor sowing use 10 to 15 kg seed rate per hectare.  Keep 90 X 30 cm distance for sowing select varieties like Girij, aruna and VI-9.  Before sowing sock the seed for 24 to 48 hrs in water.  Give fertilizer dose of 60 kg nitrogen and 30 kg phosphors per hectare.  Give half dose of fertilizer 40 to 45 days after sowing.
Sunflower For sowing sunflower use select varieties like SS-56, Modern, Bhanu which comes in short period use two bowl seeded drill for sowing so that seed and fertilizer are give at same time for sowing use 7 to 8 kg seed per hectare do not sown the seed more than 5 cm depth Give fertilizer dose of 50 kg nitrogen, 25 kg phosphorus and 25 kg potash at time of sowing. Use 45 X 30 cm spacing distance for sowing.

 

                                                                          

                                                                                       Source : 

                       

                                            CASAM (Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture Meteorology)
                                    Department of Agriculture Meteorology, College of Agriculture, Pune 411005.