भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान परिषद

Daily Rainfall Situation

District wise Agriculture Contingency Plan

Monsoon Watch

• Conditions are favourable for advance of southwest monsoon over Andaman Sea and parts of south Bay of Bengal during next 48 hours.

Thunderstorm Watch

• Thunderstorms have been reported at one or two places over Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Odisha and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal between 0830 hours IST of yesterday to 0830 hours IST of today.

Main Weather Observations

• Minimum temperatures are below normal by 2-3°C over some parts of Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha and isolated pockets of Haryana and north Rajasthan. They are above normal by 2-3°C over some parts of south Rajasthan, Gujarat region, Bihar and interior south peninsula and over isolated pockets of east & northeast India and near normal over rest of the country.
• Rain/thundershowers has-occurred at many places over Jammu & Kashmir, Sub-Himalayan-West Bengal & Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Islands; at a few places over north coastal Andhra Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal and northeastern States and at one or two places over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Odisha and Karnataka.
• Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country.
• The chief amounts of rainfall (1 cm or more) recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Machilipatnam and Coochbehar-3 each, Jalpaiguri-2 and Darjeeling and Tehri-1 each.
• Kalpana-1 Cloud imagery at 0830 hours IST shows convective clouds over parts of south Odisha, south Chhattisgarh, north coastal Andhra Pradesh, westcentral & northwest Bay of Bengal and north Andaman Sea. Low/medium clouds are seen over parts of Jammu & Kashmir, west Rajasthan, northeast and peninsular India.

Weather Forecast for next 3 days (upto 0830 hours IST of 18th May, 2013)

• Rain/thundershowers would occur at most places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over Andaman & Nicobar Islands during next 24 hours and increase thereafter.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over Assam & Meghalaya and at a few places over Arunachal Pradesh and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal during next 24 hours and decrease thereafter.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at one or two places over rest Odisha, rest Gangetic West Bengal, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh during next 24 hours.
• Rain/thundershowers would occur at one or two places over Kerala, Karnataka, Lakshadweep and Tamilnadu.
• Maximum temperature would rise by 2-4°C over northwest and central India.
• Weather would be mainly dry over rest parts of the country.
• Latest available satellite picture (Fig.1) indicates the current cloud condition across Indian region.
• The climate outlook for the period of seven days i.e. 15th to 22nd May 2013 (Fig. 2). Rain/thundershowers would occur at a most places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Odisha, West Bengal, Gangetic West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Lakshadweep and Tamilnadu.

Weather Warning during next 3 days

• Fishermen of Andaman Islands are advised not to venture into the sea during next 48 hours. Fishermen along and off coastal areas of West Bengal and Odisha are advised to be careful while venturing into the sea during next 48 hours.
• Thunder squall would occur at one or two places over Odisha and West Bengal & Sikkim during next 24hours and over Assam & Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura during next 48 hours.
• Heavy rainfall would occur at one or two places over south Assam, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura during next 72 hours.

Agricultural activities

• Dry weather prevailed in Haryana state during past few days. Maximum temperature ranged between 34.4 to 41.6°C and minimum temperature ranged from 20.0 to 23.0°C. Agricultural operations like sowing of american cotton, napier grass and other fodder crops, field preparation for nursery plantation of paddy, intercultural operation in early sown cotton, irrigation in sugarcane, cutting and pruning in ber orchard crops are in progress. No pests/diseases were noticed were noticed
• Dry weather prevailed in Gujarat state during past few days. Agricultural operations like picking of Okra fruits, matured green gram pods, irrigation in summer pearlmillet, fertilizers application in vegetable crops & Ploughing of fellow lands, preparations are underway for nursery sowing of kharif vegetables and paddy, Composting in pits at farm level are in progress. No pests/diseases were noticed.

(Source:Email: pc-agromet@crida.in, CRIDA, Hyderabad )

Advisory for Horticultural Crops

Citrus

• Spray chlormaquat chloride @ 2ml/L if it rains in November
• Foliar application of acaricides, ethion or dicofol @ 2ml/L for mites on mrig crop

Mushroom

• Spray Bavistin @ 0.05% if any growth of competitors mould is visible on the beds.
• Maintain proper temperature and humidity inside the growing rooms.
• Give proper ventilation in the cropping rooms.

Maintain proper hygienic conditions in and around growing rooms

(Source:Email: manishdas50@gmail.com, Horticulture Division, ICAR )

Feeding, Management and Heath Care of Livestock for January-February, 2013

• Animals to be protected from exposure to cold by housing in sheds with thatched roofing specially in the night and covering the windows and ventilators with gunny bags.
• Particularly in hill areas, animals may preferably be grazed between 11.00 AM to 3.00 PM to avoid exposure to extreme cold conditions of early morning and late evening
• Advance pregnant animals and new born lambs should be provided with straw bedding and the bedding should be changed regularly
• Because of approaching breeding season for sheep and goat, breeding males and females be provided concentrate ration @ 150 to 200 g/head/day
• Poultry shed be provided with room heaters and ventilators should be covered with gunny bag
• Sheared angora rabbits should be housed in shed for at least 7-10 days to protect against exposure to cold
• Rabbit and poultry cages and feeders to be daily cleared off litter / leftover and disinfected once a month using blow lamp
• Clean drinking water be provided to animals and water troughs should be regularly cleaned
• Animals to be provided area specific mineral mixture along with salt regularly and grains like wheat, bajra, jaggery etc. may be provided @ 10%-20% in the daily ration during winter season to meet the energy requirement of the animals
• 10% extra dry matter (DM) should be provided over and above the total requirement to fulfill the extra energy requirement in winter
• Animals to be screened for nasal discharge, wound and injuries regularly and the services of veterinary doctor be taken for treatment
• Animals to be dewormed with suitable anti-helmentic drug and be checked and treated for ecto-parasites, if any
• Ensure periodic vaccination of animals against FMD, Brucellosis, Haemorrahagic Septicaemia, Anthrax and small ruminants against PPR and Sheep and Goat Pox

(Source:Email: dr_vineetbhasin@hotmail.com, Animal Science Division, ICAR)

Advisory for Fishery

During last fortnight there has been normal Rainfall in the country and most of the places situation is normal with regard to rainfall hence water availability for Fish Farming

Measures to be adopted by Farmers

Carp Farming

• Fish Farmers of the states having normal rainfall should start normal culture of fish.
• Ponds for grow-out culture need to be prepared before stocking
• Ponds should be made weed and predator free by continuous netting before stocking
• In those area where ponds have 1-4 meter depth and farmer opts for semi intensive type of culture, stocking should be done with fingerlings of 100 mm size /50-100 gms @ 8000-10,000 fingerlings /ha
• In areas having little constrain of water and pond depth less than 4 meter, farmer should stock pond @ 5000 fingerlings /ha
• During Rearing ,Polyculture of carp species is recommended.
• In some areas where it is raining consistently like Bihar, Bengal and Chhattisgarh, Farmers need to be vigilant for grow out ponds and check the pH regularly as rain cause depletion in pH, thereby causing mortality especially in Katla. Such ponds should be limed @200kg/ha/m
• Fertilization of grow -out ponds should primarily be done with Urea and phosphorus instead of organic manure in areas , still having frequent rains .Areas not having rains now should fertilize the ponds as per usual recommendations

Shrimp farming

• Shrimp farmers , who have already started the winter crop especially in coastal AP are advised to check the water quality in the ponds for the decrease in pH and are advised to apply lime @300-500kg/ha to maintain stable pH.
• The areas receiving wide spread rainfall, the shrimp farmers are advised to monitor the water qualityand feed intake by shrimps at frequent intervals for taking the corrective actions like application of lime and reduce the feed quantity based on the feed intake by the animals from the check tray observations.

(Source:Email: ushamoza@icar.org.in, Fisheries Division, ICAR)

Advisory for Yellow Rust (Stripe Rust) Management in Haryana

Stripe rust has appeared in Yamunanagar, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Panipat, Panchkula, Kaithal and Sirsa districts of Haryana. The disease incidence is more in un-recommended susceptible varieties grown by the farmers. Stripe rust is severe in varieties, Super 172, WH 711, HD 2851, HD 2894, Raj 3765 planted in large scale in villages in Sadhoura block of Yamunanagar. The disease is up to 80S in Super 172.

If farmers observe stripe rust in their fields on upper leaves (up to 2nd leaf from top), farmers are advised to spray the crop immediately with following fungicides.

• Wherever yellow rust is observed in the field, one spray of Propiconazole 25EC (Tilt 25 EC) @ 0.1 per cent or Tebuconazole 250 EC (Folicur 250 EC) @ 0.1 per cent or Triademefon (Bayleton 25 WP) @ 0.1per cent be given to control the disease.
• One ml of chemical should be mixed in one litre water and thus 200 ml of fungicide mixed with 200 L of water should be sprayed in one acre wheat crop.
• Farmers should spray the crop when weather is clear i.e., no rain, no fog / dew etc.
• Farmers should avoid spray in late evening.

(Source: Project Director, Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal, Haryana-132001)

Updated on 15-05-2013 5:40 PM