7 months ago
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The Department of Agriculture connected Friday issued method recommendations to farmers for restoring paddy and different crops damaged owed to caller dense rains crossed the State, peculiarly successful the southbound coastal districts, arsenic advised by Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University.
The section officials said that paddy, cultivated successful 15.58 lakh hectares, was astatine assorted stages, ranging from flowering to harvesting, portion late-sown crops were astatine panicle initiation and booting stages.
In Bapatla, Palnadu, and Nandyal, crops were astatine panicle initiation to booting stages, portion those successful the Krishna and Godavari delta regions were mostly successful flowering to harvesting stages.
Farmers had been advised to guarantee speedy drainage of lasting water, enactment lodged crops, and use fungicides similar ‘propiconazole’ to forestall atom discolouration and fungal diseases. Spraying 5% brackish solution was recommended for crops showing pre-harvest sprouting. Late-sown crops should person a booster dose of urea and MOP to stimulate growth.
In South Coastal districts, submerged nurseries should beryllium treated with urea and potash, and carbendazim oregon carbendazim positive mancozeb to forestall seedling rot. Cotton and groundnut farmers were advised to power leafage spot diseases with hexaconazole oregon carbendazim, and to forestall boll rot with copper oxychloride and plantomycin sprays. For pearl millet, a communal brackish solution tin forestall atom sprouting astatine harvest, they said.
The officials emphasised that speedy drainage, timely fungicide application, and balanced fertilisation were captious to rejuvenate affected crops and support quality. Farmers were urged to travel these guidelines to mitigate losses and reconstruct productivity.
