Udupi Agromet Advisory

5-Day Weather Forecast

General Advisory

• Farmers can make mulching as less rainfall received from past one week to conserve moisture Farmers can apply second dose of top dressing fertilizer to paddy crop Farmers can spray of 2nd round 1% Bordo mixture to arecanut in clear weather conditions Farmers can apply agricultural lime as per the soil test recommendations, ensuring that sufficient moisture is present in the soil at the time of application. Weather based Agro advisory for Udupi district Crop/en Crop Weather Risk Agro Advisory terprise Stage  Moisture  Conserve available soil moisture by strengthening field bunds and stress for mid minimizing water losses. Provide life-saving irrigation, wherever and up land feasible, particularly at this critical crop growth stage and avoid crop moisture stress for yield reduction. Panicle  If case worm infestation is observed in paddy, spray  Likelihood Paddy initiation Chlorantraniliprole @ 0.5 ml/litre or Chlorpyrifos @ 2 ml/litre or of caseworm Stage Neem oil (3000 ppm) @ 3 ml/litre of water. and leaf  If leaf folder infestation is observed in paddy, spray folder Chlorantraniliprole @ 0.5 ml/litre or Chlorpyrifos @ 2 ml/litre or infestation Neem oil (3000 ppm) @ 3 ml/litre of water General Advisory  2nd Top Dressing (55-60 Days after transplanting : Apply Nitrogen 6 kg / ac (i.e Urea : 13kg) and Apply Potassium 7.5 kg /ac (i.e Muriate of Potash : 15 kg) Horticultural crops Arecanut Nut Nursery Weeding and supervision for any diseases should be done. Watering Formation should be done based on the continuity of rainfall New orchard Farmers can plant new saplings at 9feet X 9feet distance if assured establishment source of irrigation is there. After planting farmers can plant Banana in new orchard so that it will give shade to newly planted arecanut and by this farmers can get additional income from Banana and growing banana can be done upto initial 4-5 years. Nutrient In coastal areas Farmers can apply agricultural lime as per the soil Management test recommendations, ensuring that sufficient moisture is present in the soil at the time of application.15 days After application of Agricultural lime farmers can apply fertilizers (Urea: 108grams, SSP:125grams and MOP:116grams + 20 kg FYM or Compost or Vermicompost) Likelihood of If spindle or Pentatomid bug infestation is there spray Imidacloprid Spindle bug and 1ml/ltr or Thiomethaxome 0.5gm/ltr Pentatomid Bug Likelihood of Drenching of Chloropyriphos 3-5ml/ltr Root Grub (Minimum 5 litre of this solution should be drenched to palm) Coconut Physiolog New orchard Farmers can plant new saplings at 40feet X 40feet distance if assured ical establishment source of irrigation is there. After planting farmers can plant Banana or Maturity any vegetable crops in new orchard so that it will give shade to newly planted coconut and by this farmers can get additional income from Banana or vegetables and growing banana can be done upto initial 4-5 years. Nutrient In coastal areas Farmers can apply agricultural lime as per the soil test Management recommendations, ensuring that sufficient moisture is present in the soil at the time of application.15 days After application of Agricultural lime farmers can apply fertilizers (Urea: 550grams, SSP:1000grams and MOP:1000grams + 50kg FYM or Compost or Vermicompost for 4th year onwards palms) Likelihood of  Collect and destroy the various stages of the beetle from the manure Rhinoceros pits (breeding ground of the pest) whenever manure is lifted from the Beetle pits.  Incorporate the Entomopathogen i.e, fungus (Metarrhizium anisopliae) in manure pits to check the perpetuation of the pest.  Examine the crowns of tree at every harvest and hook out and kill the adults.  Apply mixture of either phorate 10 G + sand (1:2) @150 g per palm or phorate 10 G + sand (1:2) @150 g per palm in the base of the 3 inner most leaves in the crown.  Place Phorate 10 G 5gm in perforated sachets in two inner most leaf axils for 2 times at 6 months intervals.  Set up one Rhinolure pheromone trap for half hectare area to trap and kill the beetles. Black Formati New planting Continue new-planting or replanting. Select good quality pepper Pepper on of or replanting saplings from government approved nurseries. Berries General Undertake slash – weeding. Tie growing shoots of young plants to the Advise standards. Prune the branches of support trees to regulate shade. Nutrient In coastal areas Farmers can apply agricultural lime as per the soil test Management recommendations, ensuring that sufficient moisture is present in the soil at the time of application.15 days After application of Agricultural lime farmers can apply fertilizers (Urea: 50grams, SSP:150grams and MOP:125grams + 10 kg FYM or Compost or Vermicompost) Chance of As a precautionary measure go for pruning of severely affected leaves Quick wilt and destroy them followed by application of FYM enriched with neem cake or Soil drenching with 3gram Copper Oxychloride or 1% Bordeaux mixture. Cashew Grand Likelihood of To manage T-Mosquito bug farmers can spray Monocrotophos @ of growth T-Mosquito 1.7ml/ltr or Lamdacyalothrin @ 0.5ml/ltr. Bug Likelihood of To manage leaf rot farmers can spray Copper oxychloride @ 3gm per Leaf Rot litre. Nutrient
• Farmers can apply agricultural lime as per the soil test Management recommendations, ensuring that sufficient moisture is present in the soil at the time of application.
• Farmers can apply 60:60:60 gm of NPK, 125:125:125 gm of NPK, 250:125:125 gm of NPK, 500:125:125 gm of NPK and 500:250:250 gm of NPK/plant for 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd Year, 4th to 8th year and Above 9th year plants respectively. General
• Remove the side shoots which appear on the root stock. advisory Jasmine Floweri Likelihood of Farmers can spray Hexaconazole @ of 1ml/ltr or Copper Oxy-Chloride ng stage Leaf Spot @ 3gm/ltr Moisture Provide water if moisture stress is there stress Animal ---- General Animals should be vaccinated against FMD, Enterotoximea, Black Husbandry Advisory quarter if not done so far.., Farmers can add 30-50 g m of mineral mixture to animal feed to get good milk yield Ecto Parasite: Keep the shed/area where animals are kept, clean. Bouquets of Basil, Neem or Lemon grass may be hung up in the animal shed, the scent of which keeps the ecto-parasites away Alternatively a lemon oil or Neem oil or Eucalyptus oil based disinfectant may also used for this purpose. Fisheries ---- General Farmers can make preparation of fish pond for fingerling production Advisory The pH of fish fry ponds can be adjusted to 7.5 by adding lime. Then, by adding manure, the natural fish food production can be done and when the pond water turns from light green to brown, freshwater fish fry can be stocked. These chicks will be available for sale from authorized suppliers in June and July. (This Agro Advisory Information is based on Weather forecast received from MC, Bengaluru & IMD,New Delhi) Mr. Praveen K.M Dr. Naveen NE Technical Officer, GKMS, Nodal Officer, GKMS, ZAHRS, Brahmavar, Udupi. ZAHRS, Brahmavar, Udupi.

Crop advisories for Udupi

• 17 Sept 2019Valid: 18 Sept 2019 – 22 Sept 2019

Crops & issues in this advisory