Year 32, No: - 42/2025-26/Fri.                                                                                                                                   Time: 2.30 PM                                                                                                                                           Date- 22nd August, 2025

Weather during current week (From 16th to 22nd August, 2025)

      Slightly cloudy weather conditions were observed during the week except a rainfall of 2.6 mm on 17th August, 14.0 mm on 18th August and 13.5 mm on 22nd August, was recorded at the institute observatory. Maximum temperature ranged between 30.0 °C and 35.9 °C (weekly normal 33.2 °C). Minimum temperature ranged between 26.0 °C and 27.6 °C (weekly normal 25.9 °C). Relative humidity at 7.21 AM ranged between 81 and 95 percent and that at 2.21 PM ranged between 67 and 95 percent. The average bright sunshine hour during the week was 4.3 hours per day (weekly normal 4.3 hours). The average wind speed recorded was 3.7 km/h (normal 4.0 km/h). Mean evaporation rate during the period was 4.5 mm/day (weekly normal 4.5 mm/day). Wind during morning and evening it was from different directions.

Weather based Agromet-Advisories (for the period ending on 27th August, 2025) 

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

• Keeping rainfall forecast in mind farmers are advised not to do any type of spray and do proper management in standing crops and vegetable nurseries.
• In present weather condition, constant monitoring for brown plant hopper (BPH) in paddy field is advised. Farmers are advised to enter into the middle of the crop field and see mosquito like insect at the basal portion of the plant. 
• This time paddy crop is in vegetative stage. Keeping in view of present weather, farmers are advised to monitor crop regularly, if population of leaf folder or stem borer is above ETL than broadcast of Cartap 4% granules @ 10 kg/acre is recommended. Farmers are advised to install pest specific pheromone traps @ 3-4/acre in the paddy fields for monitoring of stem borer.
• In present weather conditions, farmers are advised for sowing of sweet corn (Madhuri, Vin orange) and baby corn (H.M-4) in raised bed. 
• In this time, sowing of carrot can be done on raised bed. Recommended cultivars: - Pusa Vrishti. Seed rate-4.0-6.0 kg/ acre. Application of FYM and phosphorus fertilizer is recommended. Seed treatment with Captan @ 2 gm per kg is advised.
• In present weather conditions, transplanting of brinjal, tomato, chilli cauliflower and cabbage are advised on raised bed for those farmers whose seedlings are ready. 
• It is suitable time for preparation of nurseries of cauliflower for mid-season (Nov.-Dec.). Varieties: Pusa sharad, Pusa hybrid-2, Pant shubra. Farmers are advised to transplant onion seedling in the prepared fields. 
• This is suitable time for sowing of sarson saag- Pusa saag-1; Radish- Versa kee rani, summer long, long chetaki; Spinach- All green; Coriander- pant Haritama, hybrids. 
• Farmers are advised for lifting the creepers above the ground on a trellis made of bamboo. 
• Bees are important source for pollination in vegetable crops therefore, bee keeping should be promoted. Constant monitoring of the crops should be done for insect-pest and disease regularly. Farmers should take advice from the experts for use of insecticides and other information regarding the crops. Fruit flies infected fruits should be picked and buried in the soil. Protection of cucurbitaceous crops against fruit fly by use of bait trap (mixing juggary 10 % with any insecticide and putting at different corners of the field) is advised.
• In vegetables (brinjal, cauliflower, cabbage, tomato etc), for monitoring of borer insect, farmers are advised to use pheromone trap @ 3-4/acre. 
• 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, if infection is more than spraying of Imidacloprid @ 0.3 ml per litre of water is advised for control the vector, when sky remains clear.
• Farmers who want to establish new orchard gardens (Mango, citrus and guava) are advised for transplanting of plants from recognized sources earliest.
• Farmers are advised to use “Light Trap” to keep a check on pest population. This causes less damage to useful insects. For making a light trap, a bulb should be fixed above a tumbler (either plastic or tin) having a mixture of water and few drops of Insecticide. The insects get attracted towards the light, fall in the solution and die.

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)

Dr. A.K. Singh (Principal Scientist and Incharge, CATAT)