Bhilwara: The steady rain within the state has began damaging the crops. In the district, together with stem rotting of moong and urad crops, the outbreak of jaundice illness has additionally began. The officers of the agriculture division are going to the sector and telling the farmers the tactic of crop safety.
This time the farmers had sown the Kharif crop with nice hope. Mainly moong, urad and sesame crops have been sown, however because of steady rains, the crops began getting broken.
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Joint Director of Agriculture Department, Gopal Lal Kumawat mentioned that this 12 months throughout the sowing of Kharif crop, farmers in Bhilwara district have sown urad in 21 thousand hectares of land, moong in 97 hundred hectares of land and sesame in 6700 hectares of land. Pods have already fashioned within the moong crop. Infestation of ‘semilooper’ insect is seen in these pods. Same is the situation of urad crop.
Regarding pulse crops, Kumawat suggested the farmers to combine Monocrotophos 1 ml per liter and Mancozeb powder 2 grams per liter of water and spray it on the crop, in order that the crop won’t be infested with pests. Do not spray on the crop wherein pods have already fashioned.
