Blackgram

Crop Establishment

Introduction Seed Rate And Spacing Seed Treatment Crop Rotation

Introduction

Kharif urdbean is sown in the last week of June to early July.
This crop is mainly grown under rainfed conditions.
In case of summer urdbean, sowing may be started in the last week of February till the end of March.
Plantings beyond March may be caught by monsoon rains in the second fortnight of June and result in drastic yield reduction.

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Seed Rate And Spacing

During rainy season, the crop is generally sown by broadcasting the seed followed by planking.
Sowing could be done in rows with the help of local plough at the distance of 30-45 cm depending upon the variety and sowing time.
A seed rate of about 12-15 kg/ha is sufficient depending upon the variety.
Urdbean is an important crop in rice fallows in South India.
The maintenance of population is very difficult and is the major constraint in rice fallows.
40 kg seed rate/ha was optimum for urdbean in rice fallows.
Soaking of seeds before planting did not show beneficial effect over dry seeds.
During summer season, vegetative growth of urdbean is comparatively less, hence higher plant population by reducing the spacing and increasing the seed rate is desirable.
Summer crop should be sown at a row distance of 25 cm with a seed rate of 25-30 kg/ha.
Sowing can be done behind local plough or with the help of seed-drill.

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Seed Treatment

Before sowing seed should be treated with Agrosan GN or Thiram @ 2.5g/kg of seed.
Seed should also be inoculated with suitable Rhizobium culture, if blackgram is being taken for the first time in the field or after a long duration.

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Crop Rotations And Mixed Cropping

Blackgram is grown mixed with sorghum, maize, pearl millet and cotton crops during Kharif season. The important rotations with black gram in Andhra Pradesh are as given below:
- Blackgram - Chickpea
- Maize/Sorghum - Blackgram
- Soybean-Blackgram
- Sesamum/Rainfed Paddy - Blackgram
- Sunnhemp/Pillipesara - Blackgram
- Pigeonpea+Greengram - Blackgram
- Blackgram - Fodder Jonna/Fodder Pillipesara
- Rice - Blackgram

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Blackgram

About Blackgram

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Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamil Nadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.