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Potato Crop Practices Before Seedling Stage
Climatic requirement Planting Time: To secure high yields, it is essential to plant the potatoes at the optimum time. The best time of planting is when the maximum and minimum temperatures are from 30°C to 32°C and 18°C to 20°C, respectively. The following time schedule should be followed for obtaining good yields. 2 weeks before…
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Maize Harvesting Stage
Methods of harvesting maize For grains Harvesting by hand is only performed in very small fields or gardens where maize is mainly cultivated for self-use (human consumption or feed for farm animals that the family owns). This method is not cost or time-effective since one person will need from 30 to 100 hours to harvest…
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Maize Fruiting Stage
Apply 7 kg of urea per acre. This application is optional. You can either apply side dressing or broadcast the fertilizers. Example: if you have 3 acres, you will need to apply 21 kg of urea in total. Monitor your field for some diseases incidence- Charcoal rot: Macrophomina phaseolina Symptoms: Management Cob worm/Earworm: Symptoms: Management:
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Maize Flowering Stage
Nitrogen split fertilization at tasseling- Apply 26 kg of urea per acre at this time in your cropping cycle. You can either apply side dressing or broadcast the fertilizers. Maize produces a tassel of silks at the top of each ear when the plants are ready to start producing. The tassels produce the pollen that…
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Maize Vegetative Stage
Nitrogen split fertilization at 6 leaves- Once your maize plants have developed 6 leaves, apply 33 kg/acre of urea. It will be more efficient if you apply side dressing. If this is not possible, broadcast the fertilizer. Rapid nitrogen uptake by the maize plant begins about 5 weeks after germination (30-40 days) and will continue…
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Maize Crop Practices Before Seedling Stage
3 weeks before seedlings Good field conditions for your maize crop- Climate: The critical mean temperature range: Germination and seedling growth : 26° to 30°C Vegetative Phase : 34°C Tasselling Phase …
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Maize Seedling stage
Apply post-emergence chemicals for weed control- Weeds are the serious problem in Maize, particularly during kharif/monsoon season they competes with maize for nutrient and causes yield loss upto 35%. Therefore, timely weed management is needed for achieving higher yield. Take atleast one or two hand weeding in maize crop. First 20-25 days after sowing and…
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Wheat Harvesting Stage
Harvesting of high yielding dwarf varieties is carried out when leaves and stems turn yellow and become fairly dry. To avoid loss in yield crop should be harvested before it is dead ripe. Timely harvesting is needed for optimum quality and consumer acceptance. The right stage for harvesting is when moisture in grain reaches to…
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Wheat Grain Filling Stage
Monitor your field frequently for some disease infestation and crop inspection- Loose Smut of Wheat Symptoms: It is very difficult to detect infected plants in the field until heading. At this time, infected heads emerge earlier than normal heads. The entire inflorescence is commonly affected and appears as a mass of olive-black spores, initially covered…
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Wheat Flowering Stage
Irrigation should be given after the application of fertilizer because this will help faster uptake of fertilizer. Stripe Rust (Yellow) Symptoms: Mainly occur on leaves then the leaf sheaths and stem. Bright yellow pustules (Uredia) appear on leaves at early stage of crop and pustules are arranged in linear rows as stripes. The stripes are…