Mustard Land Preparation

Preparation of Land The Rapeseed and mustard require a fine, firm and moist seed bed for proper germination of the seed and growth of the young seedlings. The field should be given one presowing irrigation if there is less moisture in the field. The field should be given a deep ploughing soon after the Kharif crop is harvested in the middle of September. The field should then be ploughed 3 - 4 times with a desi plough and followed by planking after each ploughing. The crop and weed stubbles along with established weeds should be picked up thrown out of the field. In case of dryland, areas where pre-sowing irrigation may not be given the seed may be spread in a damp place at night and next morning it should be sown. This is done to increase the germination percentage of the seeds. Mostly mustard crop is grown as mixed crop in such situation land preparation for mustard crop is done as main crop. For pure mustard crop. After the harvest of Kharif crop land is ploughed deep with mould board plough once which followed by 2 to 3 ploughing by harrow cultivator or desi plough. After ploughing with the help of plank (pata) mud clods should be broken as small as possible. For mustard cultivation prepared soil should be well pulverized and fine. With less no of plantings land can also be prepared nicely when there is enough moisture in the soil. Mustered crop seed needs good amount of soil moisture to germinate where Taria can germinate in less moisture comparatively. Top

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