Agro-Meteorological Advisories for Farmers of Rajgarh District

Year: 2018 Bulletin Period: 3 January to 7 January 2018 Day: Tuesday Dated:2.1.2018

Weather forecast Summary: On the basis of forecast received from India Meteorological Department, Bhopal, the weather conditions during the next five days (w.e.f. 2 January, 2018) for Rajgarh district 0 mm rainfall will occur during this period. Maximum temperature will be 24.0 to 26°C and minimum temperature will be 6.0 to 8.0 °C respectively. Wind will North-East & East direction. Wind speed wills be 8 to 11 kmph. A. Medium Range Weather Forecast for Rajgarh District of Madhya Pradesh for next 5 days

District Date Rainfa Temp Temp Cloud Rh Wind Wind Rh Max ll Max Min Cover Min Speed Direction (%) (mm) (deg C) (deg C) (%) (%) (kmph) (deg) RAJGARH 03/01/2018 0 26 8 0 80 35 10 N-E RAJGARH 04/01/2018 0 25 8 0 77 33 9 N-E RAJGARH 05/01/2018 0 25 7 0 74 30 8 E-S RAJGARH 06/01/2018 0 25 7 0 72 28 9 E RAJGARH 07/01/2018 0 24 6 0 70 22 11 E-S

Crops Phonological Advice Stage  First irrigation should be given to late sown wheat crop if it is 21-25 days old as per requirement because in wheat CRI-Stage has been made. Field preparation Wheat of Wheat crop  In wheat crop, if symptoms of termite are appear than application of mixture of 20 kg sand with Chlorpyriphos 20 EC @ 2.0 litre should be done in evening hours and subsequent irrigation is recommended.

Field crop Vegetative growth For monitoring of the pod borer in the gram crop, installation of Pheromone Chickpea / Gram stage trap @ 3-4 traps per acre is advised if flowering has reached 10-15. Around Mango trunk should be done for preventing climbing of young Fruit crops Mango mealy bugs. Apply grease to seal any cracks. Vegetables and Spices  Intercultural operations in vegetables are advised to remove the weeds.

 Farmers are advised to start earthling-up in potato if crop has attained a height of 15-22 cm. If so required, the practice may be Nursery repeated after 15 days. development for vegetables winter season  Farmers are advised for transplantation of onion seedling in this potato, pea, chill, vegetables cop tomato/garlic week. Seedling should not be older than six weeks. Transplanting should be done in small beds. Deep transplanting should be avoided. Apply 20 ton well decomposed FYM, 10-15 day before transplanting with 20 kg nitrogen, 60-70 kg phosphorus and 80-100 kg potash at the time of last ploughing.

Animal husbandry Berseem (Cattle  Keeping in view of suitable weather, sowing of barseem for fodder purpose can be done. Feed) Cultivars for for barseem – Vardan, Buland Barseem-1, J.B-3. Seed rate: - barseem -25-30 kilogram per hectare.

Cattle  Protect cattle from cold at night. Use littre in cattle shed and keep cattle in sunlight at day time.

 Cattle should be keep in shade and provide clean and fresh water two times in a day.  Cowshed with be whitewashed with lime and cows/ buffaloes should be prevented from Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (HS) and black quarter disease through vaccination.  Provide green fodder by cutting of chaff cutter and use mangers,  To control ecto parasite use Butox and also deworming to cattle.  Animalsmust be fed 50-60 grams of salt mixed with water. Poultry  Vaccinate the chicks at 7 days (F1) and at 6 weeks with R2B.  Vaccinate the poultry birds to prevent Ranikhet disease. (first F-1in age of 7 days & second R2B in age of 8 weeks )  To prevent Rani khet disease vaccinate the poultry.  Provide mineral mixture and fresh and clean water to birds. Goat  Goat should be keep in shade and provide clean and fresh water three times in a day.  Vaccinate the goat to control PPR disease.  Keep goat in dry and shaded place and provide green fodder, fresh and clean water three times in a day. Apply control measures forendo andecto parasite.

By: Nodal officer& Technical officer “Weather Forecast Based KrishiMausamSewa Project” RVSKVV, College of Agriculture, Indore M.P.Ph: +919893946434, email [email protected]