Year 31, No: -26/2024-25/Fri.                                                                               Time: 2.30 PM                                                                         Date: 28th June, 2024

Weather during current week (From 22nd June, to 28th June, 2024)

     Cloudy weather conditions were observed during the week. except a rainfall of 14.2 mm on 22nd June, 5.2 mm on 25th June and 94.8 mm on 28th June was recorded at the institute observatory. Maximum temperature ranged between 32.0°C and 39.0°C (weekly normal 36.8°C). Minimum temperature ranged between 24.2°C and 30.6°C (weekly normal 27.0°C). Relative humidity at 7.21 AM ranged between 69 and 98 percent and that at 2.21 PM ranged between 47 and 72 percent. The average bright sunshine hour during the week was 2.5 hours per day (weekly normal 5.0 hours). The average wind speed recorded was 3.7 km/h (normal 5.5 km/h). Mean evaporation rate during the period was 4.1 mm/day (weekly normal 6.9 mm/day). Wind during morning and evening was from different directions.

Weather based Agromet-Advisories (for the period ending on 03rd July, 2024) 

Advisory based on advices received from the subject matter specialists of agromet-advisory committee: 

• Keeping rainfall forecast in mind farmers are advised for proper management of drainage in vegetable nurseries, pulses and oilseed crops. Stop all type of sprays in standing crops. 
• Farmers are advice to transplant 20-25 days old paddy seedling in prepared fields with spacing of 20 x 10 (R x P) cm. Nitrogen 100 kg. /ha, Phosphorus 60 kg. /ha, Potash 40 kg. /ha and zinc sulphate 25 kg/ ha should be use before transplanting. Add one packet/acre of Blue Green Algae (BGA) in those fields of paddy where standing water is available, as it is rich source of nitrogen. Farmers are advised to make bund for conserving rain water in the field. Bund should be higher and wider so that more rain water can be conserved in the field. 
• In the paddy nursery, if upper leaves of the paddy seedlings become yellow and lower leaves remain green, it indicates the iron deficiency. Spraying of ferrous sulphate @ 0.5 % with 0.25% lime solution is recommended to overcome this problem. 
• In present weather condition farmers are advised to prepare fields for maize crop. Recommended Hybrids like AH-421, AH-58 or Composites: Pusa composite-3, Pusa composite-4. Procure good quality seeds from certified sources. Seed rate 20 kg/ha. It is also advised to maintain row to row spacing of 60-75 cm. and plant to plant 18-25 cm. Spray of Atrazine 1-1.5 kg a.i/ha. in 800 litre of water is recommended for effective weed control in maize. proper management of drainage in standing crops.
• This is most suitable time to grow fodder sorghum specially Pusa chari-9, Pusa chari-6 or other hybrids. Seed rate should be 40 kg/ha Fodder crop lobia can also be sown in this week.
• Farmers are advised for preparation of nursery for chilli, brinjal and early cauliflower (maturing in the month of September). It is also advised to use shed nets, which helps in reducing vector borne diseases and produce healthy seedlings. Nursery should be covered by net at the height of 6.5 feet for protection against sunlight. 
• Transplanting of brinjal, chilli and early cauliflower are advised for those farmers whose seedlings are ready. 
• Farmers are advised to start sowing of Cucurbits in rainy season. It is most suitable time to sow recommended hybrids/ varieties. Some popular hybrids are Bottle Gourd- Pusa Naveen, Pusa Samridhi, Bitter Gourd- Pusa Visesh, Pusa-2 mosumi, Pumpkin- Pusa Visvash, Pusa Vikash, Ridge Gourd- Pusa Chikni, Cucumber- Pusa Uday, Pusa Barkha etc. proper management of drainage in standing crops.
• In present weather conditions, rouging of viral infested crop should be done in chilli. Infected plants should be uprooted and buried in the soil. After rouging, spraying of Imidacloprid @ 0.3 ml per litre of water is advised to control the vector.
• Farmers who want to establish new orchards in this rainy season are advised to dig the pits 1mx1mx1m and fill these with well decomposed FYM. The pits should be treated with 5.0 ml of chlorpyrifos 20 EC per litre water to prevent termite and white grub. 
• Before sowing of any crop, farmers are advised for application of well decomposed FYM or compost, it increases the water use efficiency as well as nutrient quantity in the soil. Use balance amount of fertilizers after soil testing. Farmers are also advised to increase the amount of potash it helps in minimizing the losses due to the moisture stress during dry spell. In rain fed areas, use of mulches is beneficial for conservation of moisture in the soil.
• Farmers are advised to do proper arrangement for storing rain water at one portion in the field; this water can be used for irrigation in the crops at suitable time during dry spell.

Members of Agro advisory Committee

Dr. Ananta Vashisth (Nodal Officer, Agricultural Physics)

Dr. Subash Nataraja (Head, Division of Agricultural Physics)

Dr. P. Krishnan (Professor, Division of Agricultural Physics) 

Dr. Deb Kumar Das (Principal Scientist, Agricultural Physics)

Dr. B. S. Tomar (Head, Division of Vegetable Science)

Dr. Sachin Suresh Suroshe (Project coordinator, AICRP on Honeybee)

Dr. Dinesh Kumar (Principal Scientist, Agronomy)

Dr. P. Sinha (Principal Scientist, Plant Pathology)