Season, Seed Rate, Planting & Transplanting

Season

Kharif -May - June
Rabi - Sept-Nov

Seed Rate - 10 kg/ha

Planting - Plant 45 days old seedlings at a spacing of 10 cm x 10 cm

Transplanting - Spacing 15 cm x 10 cm
 4,70,000 seedlings/hectare                             

Fertilizer Requirement(Per Hectare)

Thrips & Onion Fly

§  Thrips & Onion Fly

ü  Neem Extract Azadirachtin 1000 EC 1.7 ml/lit of water

ü  Bell (Fipronil 5 % SC) 2-5 ml/lit of water

ü  Spray KARGIL (Imidachloprid 30.5 % SC) 1.6 ml/Litre of Water

ü  Flemingo (Emamectin Benzoate 3% + Thiamethoxam 12% WDG) 0.4 - 0.5 g/ ltr of water

ü  Methyl demeton 25 EC 1 ml/lit

ü  Dimethoate 30 EC 1 ml/lit with Teepol 0.5 ml/lit.

Cutworm

§  Cutworm

ü  Drenching the soil with Chlorpyriphos @ 2 ml/lit.

Nematode

§  Nematode

ü  Soil Application with Nematicide (Neem + Karanj Extract) at 1200 ml/Ha

ü  Neem Cake ,  1 Tn/Ha at planting to control root knot nematode, Meloidogyne spp.

ü  Fumigation under polythene cover for 2-3 days using following-

·         Methyl Bromide (500 g/10 m²)

·         Ethylene-di-bromide (20 lit/ha)

·         Durofume (@ 30 lit/ha) 

Leaf Spot

§  Leaf Spot

ü  Spray ZEB-75 (Mancozeb 75% WP) 2g/ litre of water

ü  Copper oxychloride 2 g/lit

Yield

Harvest
Irrigation is stopped on a week before harvesting. Harvest is done when 75 % of leaves dried off or top fall stage.

Yield - 15-18 t/ha within 140-150 days.