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Vegetables
Bhendi, tomato and brinjal are the major vegetable crops
grown during Kharif and Rabi.
Varieties
- Bhendi : Parbhani Kranthi, Arka Anamika
- Tomato : Pusa Ruby, Pusa Early Dwarf and Arka Vikas.
- Brinjal : Pusa purle Long, Bhagyamathi, Green Spiny, Polur (local
preferred variety)
Sowing time
- Bhendi is sown during June-July in kharif and January – February in
Rabi, tomato and brinjal during June, September – October and January.
The seed rate for bhendi is 18-20kg ha-1 with a spacing of
45x20cm. In raising nurseries 500g ha-1 tomato, 650g ha-1
brinjal seed is required. For tomato adopt spacing of 50x50cm and for
brinjal 60x60cm.
Fertilizers
- Apply FYM at 20-25t ha-1 and fertilizers 100N, 50 P2O5,
50 K2O kg ha-1 for bhendi, tomato and brinjal.
Pest Managemnt
Shoot and fruit borers
- Spray carbaryl 50 W.P @ 2.5g l-1 quinalphos @ 2.0ml l-1
or endosulfan @ 2.0 ml l-1 or monocrotophos @ 1.6ml l-1
or carbaryl @ 3.0g l-1. Repeat the spraying on need basis.
Jassids, aphids and Whiteflies
- Spray dimethoate @ 2.0ml or methyl-o-dememton @ 2.0ml monocrotophos
@ 1.5ml or triazophos 1.5ml l-1 of water.
Mites
- Spray dicofol @ 3ml or wettable sulphur @ 3.0g l-1.
Gram caterpillar
- Grow marigold as trap crop. Keep bird perches @ 10 acre-1.
Spray HNPV @ 250 LE acre-1, along with 0.1% jaggery and 0.1%
sandovit solution. Application of acephate 75 SP @ 1g or quinalphos
25 EC @ 2.5ml l-1 will minimise the incidence. Hand pick
and destroy grown up larvae.
Disease Management
Powdery Mildew (Bhendi)
- Spray wettable sulphur @ 3g l-1 or dinocap @ 1ml l-1
at 10-15 days interval starting from first symptom appearance.
Yellow vein mossaic virus (Bhendi)
- Remove and destroy infected plants and spray traizophos @ 1.5ml l-1
for the control of vector.
Damping off (Tomato)
- Raise the nursery in raised seed beds. Treat the seed with thiram
or captan @ 3g kg-1. Drench the bed with bordeaux mixture
5ml or coper oxychloride @ 3g l-1.
Early blight (Tomato)
- Spray mancozeb @ 3g l-1 twice at 15 days interval.
- Little leaf of brinjal (MLO disease)
- Remove and destroy the infected plants.
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