5 months ago
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Intense dewfall implicit the past fewer days has caused interest among farmers crossed parts of Nagapattinam district, arsenic samba and thaladi paddy crops participate the important flowering and panicle enactment stage.
Following a little lull successful rainfall, acold conditions person intensified, starring to dense dew formation, peculiarly during precocious nighttime and aboriginal greeting hours. Farmers from villages successful the Kilvelur taluk, including Kollapadu, Velliyalam, Sattiyakudi, Ettukudi, Keelayur, and Thirupoondi, said the acold was harsher than accustomed this clip of the season.
“The harvest is astatine a delicate signifier now. Prolonged dew and chilly upwind tin impact atom mounting and trim yields,” said R. Sathyan, a husbandman from Kilvelur. Crops already weakened by earlier upwind fluctuations were astatine greater risk, helium added.
Echoing the concern, K. Valayapathi, a husbandman from Nagapattinam, said adjacent a fewer much days of dense dew could pb to partial losses, particularly successful low-lying and saline-prone fields.
Meanwhile, Joint Director of Agriculture S. Babu has issued an advisory informing of accrued incidence of pests specified arsenic stem borer and leafage folder successful immoderate areas, isolated from algae maturation successful paddy fields affected by salinity.
He said farmers should instantly interaction cultivation hold officers connected noticing symptoms specified arsenic drying of the cardinal shoot, achromatic earheads, rolled leaves, oregon harvest scorching.
The advisory besides stresses timely pest absorption measures, keeping tract bunds clean, utilizing greenish manure crops, applying fertilizers lone successful recommended quantities, and avoiding continuous paddy cultivation by pursuing harvest rotation.
