• Grow short duration and drought resistant varieties.
• Go for Zero tillage.
• For hastening the emergence sow presoaked seeds.
• Growing wheat on Raised beds ensures lesser use of water with utmost importance.
• Conserve soil moisture by adequate and effective bunding.
• Mulching should be done with tree leaves, maize or rice straw for conserving soil moisture.
• Plough the field immediately after cesation of monsoon.
• Efficient planking should be done to preserve moisture and to prevent excessive exposure of soil to sun.
• Heavy patta /roller should be run over the field if moisture has been depleted from the field.
• The following stages are critical and hence the crop should be saved from stress (moisture, nutrition, heat, weeds sunlight etc)



Emergence, Crown Root Initiation (CRI), Tillering, Jointing, Booting, Heading, Flowering and Ripening.

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Weed Menace

To overcome weed problem follow the following,

• Competitive wheat cultivars with early vigor, a tall growth habit and wide leaves which will shade many weed seedlings.
• Clean seed: ensure that wheat seed is free of weed seeds.
• Delayed sowing: sowing can be delayed in order to achieve a weed germination that can then be cultivated prior to sowing. Delayed sowing can often result in reduced yield.
• Seeding rate: this can be increased to reduce the competitive ability of grass weed species.

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Fertilizer Usage

• Use of phosphatic fertilizers along with nitrogen is very essential both under irrigated and rain fed conditions. The N:P ratio of 1:1 or 1.5:1 be maintained.
• Application of Potash to the wheat crop on tube well irrigated soils or sandy type soils or crop sown after rice, sugarcane etc is essential.
• Late planting should be completed by 15 December and all fertilizers be applied at planting time.

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