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DISTRICT LEVEL AGROMET ADVISORY SERVICE
BULLETIN FOR KASHMIR (J&K) (Period 31 – 4thApril, 2021)
Issued jointly by
AGROMET FIELD UNIT-SRINAGAR
Section of Agronomy & Indian Meteorological Department (Tele-fax: 0194-2461551; e- mail: [email protected])
Bulletin No: 16/2021
No: Au/Agromet/GKMS/2021/16 Date: 30thMarch, 2021
Weather for the past seven days
Total Precipitation (mm) 69.2(mm)
Maximum temperature (0C) 8.0 – 22.0
Minimum temperature (0C) 2.5 – 10.0
Relative humidity (%) 39 - 88 (Morning) and 33 - 86 (Evening)
Wind speed (km/hours) 0.7 – 4.7
Follow SOPs for Covid-19
DISTRICT-WISE AGRO ADVISORY BULLETIN
Srinagar Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 17 18 20 20 21
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 9 10 12 12 13
Max. Relative humidity (%) 90 90 80 80 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 80 70 70 60 60
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 115 110 175 90 95
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 2 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson followed
by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is no
water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is no
water stagnation in the field
Weather Summary of the Previous Bulletin Weather forecast valid up to 4th April , 2021
There was 69.2 (mm) precipitation in previous week.
Maximum temperature ranged between m(8.0 to 22.0)0C
and minimum between (2.5 to 10.0)0C respectively.
Weather will be sunny till 4th April 2021.Day
temperature shall range between (15 to 20oC) whereas
night temperature shall range between(5 to 13)0C. The sky
will remain clear with mild wind. The relative humidity
will remain 70-90% and 60-80 over the entire valley.
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Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent and
75WP [email protected] for management of corm rot.
Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea @ 2.30
kg/kanal under high density plantation and 1.8kg/kanal
under normal density. During rainy days manage proper
drainage of fields to avoid water stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned or
diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper central
drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days between
insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing of
fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other than
those recommended by SKUAST-K. Adjuvants/Stickers
may be added for better efficacy of fungicides especially
during rainy days. Stickers are Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar
@ 12.5 g/100 litre of suspension and Triton
AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75 ml/100 litre of suspension.
Stickers should not be used with Dodine. Same systemic
fungicides should not be repeated continuously in two
sprays. The excess water should be drained out from the
orchards by making channels.
Vegetables Various growth
stages
All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under polyhouses
for nursery raising of kharief vegetable crops (tomato,
brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed sowing of cucurbits
(bottlegourd, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, etc) in polybags
under protected conditions may be continued. Provide
adequate drainage in all vegetable crop fields. Staking may
be provided in rabi seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
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standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer to
parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like milk
fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to ensure
adequate milk production, provide a minimum of 75-80
liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced feeding
consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg, dry fodder 4-
5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with special addition of oil
cakes, mineral mixture and salt along with special
pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg concentrate on daily basis.
In highly susceptible cases of milk fever give Vit. D
Injections on weekly basis starting 3-4 weeks before the
expected date of parturition. Provide moderate exercise for
half an hour 2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by
taking them out of their sheds for ease of calving and
avoiding udder edema and vaginal prolapse especially
during last few weeks of gestation. In case of
unmanageable conditions of udder edema and vaginal
prolapsed consult the local vet or feel free to contact any
specialist enrolled on Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST
website. Avoid slippery conditions, which otherwise could
predispose the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation.
Symptoms nearer to delivery like swelling of external
genitalia and udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments
should be closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the grazing
animals for meeting their nutrient demands. Undertake
shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared sheep and
newborn lambs/ kids should be protected from inclement
weather particularly incessant rains. It is advisable to feed
them inside the sheds on such occasions to avoid
mortalities. Provide proper shelter to livestock during
inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas with lush growth
of clovers. Provide proper ventilation in the animal
houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of obnoxious gases.
Provide a separate pen/ room with heating arrangements
for weak, crippled, orphan and hypothermic lambs. It
besides proper management shall ensure routine
monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure proper bedding of
the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of the dams after
parturition. Allow normal lambing to take place. Do not
disturb the animal during the lambing process. Provide
slight assistance in lambing as and when needed, otherwise
refer the case to a Veterinarian in case of dystocia/difficult
birth. Dip the navel cord of lamb in tincture iodine to avoid
joint ill/navel ill etc in lambs. Check the milking ability of
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dams at the time of parturition. Provide bottle feeding/
fostering of lambs born to dams with mastitis or less
milking ability. Keep lambs in a draft free warm
environment particularly for 1st week after birth. Provide
creep mixture after ten days of age to lambs for better
growth performance. Colour mark lambs and their dams to
avoid mis-mothering. Immediately refer entropion and
ectopion conditions in lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic
weighing of lambs shall help in detection of problems in
advance. Proper sanitation in and around the
paddocks/sheds particularly lambing sheds.The lambing
area should be keptclean and dry to avoid infections to the
newborn lambs/kids. Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two
weeks of lamb/kid birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV
after one month. Avoid visitors in and around the lambing
sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
For backyard poultry
farmers.
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised water
quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry litter
through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed indicates
spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room hastens feed
spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling feeders to less than
half level. Preventing rodents and stray birds. In view of
bird-flu scare avoid spillage of feed outside farms that
attracts free flying birds. Restrict entry of free flying birds
like sparrows, crows etc. Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks and
avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of domestic
duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard birds inside
the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts free flying birds
that may expose domestic birds to infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start sowing
of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery. Remove
suckers from budded rose plants and keep a watch on aphid
attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing has
not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
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preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage. Harvested
cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny bags by hanging
them under roofs of houses. The wooden rearing
equipments like trays, stands, etc should be kept under
roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be maintained
at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of 85- 90% is
needed during incubation of the spawned compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries to
avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid any
accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa seeds to
raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal stocking
density. Farmers are advised to keep track of trout seed
(fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease management.
If there is any mortality or morbidity immediately contact
fish health expert at AAHM, Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in breeding
season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper nutrition
(32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid). Rainy season is
going to bring huge volume of water, it is advised to keep
track of water levels in trout raceways and carp ponds.
Maintain proper aeration and water transparency.
Ganderbal
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 17 18 20 20 21
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 9 10 12 12 13
Max. Relative humidity (%) 90 90 80 80 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 80 70 70 60 60
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 75 55 50 55 55
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 2 1 1 1
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Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
7
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
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the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
For backyard poultry
farmers.
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
9
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
Budgam
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 17 18 20 20 21
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 9 10 12 12 13
Max. Relative humidity (%) 90 90 80 80 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 80 70 70 60 60
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 240 220 185 175 198
10
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 2 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
11
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
12
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
13
For backyard poultry
farmers.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
14
Anantnag
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 18 20 20 21 21
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 5 5 7 7 8
Max. Relative humidity (%) 85 80 80 70 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 70 70 60 60 50
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 70 50 130 45 45
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 2 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
15
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
16
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
17
For backyard poultry
farmers.
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
18
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
Kupwara
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 15 17 18 18 20
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 7 7 9 9 10
Max. Relative humidity (%) 90 90 80 80 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 80 80 70 70 60
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 130 85 75 80 135
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 3 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
19
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
20
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
21
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
For backyard poultry
farmers.
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
22
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
Baramullah
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 15 17 18 18 20
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 7 7 9 9 10
Max. Relative humidity (%) 90 90 80 80 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 80 80 70 70 60
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 160 165 80 90 152
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 3 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
23
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
24
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
25
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
For backyard poultry
farmers.
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
26
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
Bandipora
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 15 17 18 18 20
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 7 7 9 9 10
Max. Relative humidity (%) 90 90 80 80 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 80 80 70 70 60
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 55 50 45 50 55
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 3 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
27
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
28
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
29
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
For backyard poultry
farmers.
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
30
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
Pulwama
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 17 19 19 20 20
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 6 6 7 7 8
Max. Relative humidity (%) 90 90 80 80 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 80 80 70 60 60
31
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 45 50 305 45 40
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 2 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
32
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
33
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
34
For backyard poultry
farmers.
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
35
Shopian
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 18 20 20 21 21
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 5 5 7 7 8
Max. Relative humidity (%) 85 80 80 70 70
Min. Relative humidity (%) 70 70 60 60 50
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 175 205 325 240 240
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 2 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
36
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
37
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
38
For backyard poultry
farmers.
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
39
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
Kulgam
Weather forecast until 08:30 hrs of 4.04.2021
Parameters 31
01
02
03
04
Rainfall (mm) 0 0 0 0 0
Max. Temp. (deg. C) 18 20 20 21 21
Min. Temp. (deg. C) 6 7 7 8 8
Max. Relative humidity (%) 80 80 70 70 60
Min. Relative humidity (%) 65 65 60 60 50
Wind speed (kmph) 1 1 1 1 1
Wind direction (deg.) 170 190 170 125 295
Total cloud cover (octa) 2 2 1 1 1
Brown Sarson Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in brown sarson
followed by top dose of urea @ 2.2 kg / kanal . Make
sure that there is no water stagnation in the field
Wheat Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in wheat followed by
top dose of urea @ 3.25 kg / kanal . Make sure that there
is no water stagnation in the field.
Pea Maintenance Weeding/hoeing should be done in pea followed by top
dose of urea @ 3.125 kg / kanal . Make sure that there is
no water stagnation in the field
Oats (Fodder) Maintenance For fodder purpose apply urea@ 4.1 kg / kanal as top
dose. For Seed purpose apply urea @ 4.35 kg / kanal.
Make sure that there is no water stagnation in the field.
Saffron Care & Maintenance Identify plants showing Die Back like symptoms with
yellowish foliage that can be easily pulled out from the
diseased corms confirming saffron corm rot caused by
fusarium sp. Identify plants with complete or partially
yellowish appearance particularly starting from tips with
leaves showing purple to dark brown lesions confirming
new foliar disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Ensure
soil drenching with Carbendizime 50 WP@ 0.1percent
and 75WP [email protected] for management of
corm rot. Apply split dose of Nitrogen in the form urea
@ 2.30 kg/kanal under high density plantation and
1.8kg/kanal under normal density. During rainy days
manage proper drainage of fields to avoid water
stagnation.
Apple Green Tip Green Tip Stage:
Mancozeb 75 WP @ 300g
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or
Captan 50 WP @ 300g
or
Propineb 70 WP @ 300g
or
Zineb 75 WP @ 300g
Ensure orchard sanitation through destruction of pruned
or diseased/infected twigs by burning. Adopt proper
central drainage system. Maintain a gap of 3-4 days
between insecticide and fungicide spray. Avoid mixing
of fungicides, insecticide and spray suspensions other
than those recommended by SKUAST-K.
Adjuvants/Stickers may be added for better efficacy of
fungicides especially during rainy days. Stickers are
Selvet 99/Agrowet/Uphaar @ 12.5 g/100 litre of
suspension and Triton AE/Uphaar/Sandovit @ 50-75
ml/100 litre of suspension. Stickers should not be used
with Dodine. Same systemic fungicides should not be
repeated continuously in two sprays. The excess water
should be drained out from the orchards by making
channels.
Vegetables Various growth stages All field activities may be kept at stand still till weather
recovers. Seed sowing may be continued under
polyhouses for nursery raising of kharief vegetable
crops (tomato, brinjal, chilli, sweet pepper, etc). Seed
sowing of cucurbits (bottlegourd, cucumber, squash,
pumpkin, etc) in polybags under protected conditions
may be continued. Provide adequate drainage in all
vegetable crop fields. Staking may be provided in rabi
seed crops as a protection from lodging.
Cattle
Cow /Calf Spring calf crop expected. Pregnant cows, especially
during last trimester need special care, because of rapid
development of fetus during this period. Try to dry the
animal within a period of 15 days after the 7th month of
gestation. Provide pregnant animals enough space for
standing and sitting comfortably especially when nearer
to parturition. To reduce the possibility of diseases like
milk fever and ketosis at the time of parturition and to
ensure adequate milk production, provide a minimum of
75-80 liters of fresh and clean drinking water, balanced
feeding consisting of green fodder (Silage) 15-20 kg,
dry fodder 4-5 (kg) and composite cattle feed with
special addition of oil cakes, mineral mixture and salt
along with special pregnancy allowance of 1-2Kg
concentrate on daily basis. In highly susceptible cases of
milk fever give Vit. D Injections on weekly basis
starting 3-4 weeks before the expected date of
parturition. Provide moderate exercise for half an hour
2- 3 times a day to the pregnant animal by taking them
out of their sheds for ease of calving and avoiding udder
edema and vaginal prolapse especially during last few
41
weeks of gestation. In case of unmanageable conditions
of udder edema and vaginal prolapsed consult the local
vet or feel free to contact any specialist enrolled on
Tele-Medicine portal of SKUAST website. Avoid
slippery conditions, which otherwise could predispose
the heavy animals to fracture and dislocation. Symptoms
nearer to delivery like swelling of external genitalia and
udder, and slackening of pelvic ligaments should be
closely monitored.
Sheep and goat
Presently the animals have parturated or are in their late stage of
gestation wherein it is advised as under
Ensure FMD vaccination of the livestock before letting
them out for grazing. Provide concentrates to the
grazing animals for meeting their nutrient demands.
Undertake shearing of sheep on sunny days. Sheared
sheep and newborn lambs/ kids should be protected
from inclement weather particularly incessant rains. It is
advisable to feed them inside the sheds on such
occasions to avoid mortalities. Provide proper shelter to
livestock during inclement weather. Avoid grazing areas
with lush growth of clovers. Provide proper ventilation
in the animal houses/sheds to avoid accumulation of
obnoxious gases. Provide a separate pen/ room with
heating arrangements for weak, crippled, orphan and
hypothermic lambs. It besides proper management shall
ensure routine monitoring of the vulnerable lot. Ensure
proper bedding of the lambing pens. Ensure cleaning of
the dams after parturition. Allow normal lambing to take
place. Do not disturb the animal during the lambing
process. Provide slight assistance in lambing as and
when needed, otherwise refer the case to a Veterinarian
in case of dystocia/difficult birth. Dip the navel cord of
lamb in tincture iodine to avoid joint ill/navel ill etc in
lambs. Check the milking ability of dams at the time of
parturition. Provide bottle feeding/ fostering of lambs
born to dams with mastitis or less milking ability. Keep
lambs in a draft free warm environment particularly for
1st week after birth. Provide creep mixture after ten days
of age to lambs for better growth performance. Colour
mark lambs and their dams to avoid mis-mothering.
Immediately refer entropion and ectopion conditions in
lambs to a Veterinarian. Periodic weighing of lambs
shall help in detection of problems in advance. Proper
sanitation in and around the paddocks/sheds particularly
lambing sheds.The lambing area should be keptclean
and dry to avoid infections to the newborn lambs/kids.
42
Provide coccidiostats/cidals after two weeks of lamb/kid
birth. Vaccinate the lambs with ETV after one month.
Avoid visitors in and around the lambing sheds
Poultry For broiler farms
For backyard poultry
farmers.
Maintain following brooder temperatures.
1st week 95oF
IInd week 90oF
IIIrd week 85oF
IVth week 80oF
Vth week 75oF
VIth week 70oF
Ensure clean drinking water. In case of compromised
water quality water sanitisers may be used. Maintain dry
litter through frequent raking of litter and replacement if
required. Store feed properly. Clumping of feed
indicates spoilage. Dampness in feed storage room
hastens feed spoilage. Avoid feed wastage: by filling
feeders to less than half level. Preventing rodents and
stray birds. In view of bird-flu scare avoid spillage of
feed outside farms that attracts free flying birds. Restrict
entry of free flying birds like sparrows, crows etc.
Maintain strict bio-security.
In view of bird-flu scare, restrict movement of flocks
and avoid mixing of different flocks. Limit access of
domestic duck and geese to water bodies. Feed backyard
birds inside the pens. Spreading feed in open attracts
free flying birds that may expose domestic birds to
infections.
Flowers Care and maintenance Start planting of lilium, gladiolus and dahlia. Start
sowing of seeds for summer flowering annual nursery.
Remove suckers from budded rose plants and keep a
watch on aphid attack. Continue mowing of lawns
Apiculture
Inspection of bee colonies to be done regularly. Apply
artificial feeding in the form of sugar candies. Entrance
should be narrowed.
Sericulture
Care and maintenance Proper drainage should be maintained to avoid water
logging in the mulberry fields. Places where marketing
has not been done till date, harvested cocoons should be
preserved in safe places to avoid rodent damage.
Harvested cocoons can be preserved locally in gunny
bags by hanging them under roofs of houses. The
wooden rearing equipments like trays, stands, etc should
be kept under roofed sheds to avoid damage to them.
Mushroom
Cultivation
Button mushroom Once the compost is ready, it should be filled in wooden
trays/ plastic trays/ polythene bags of 10- 25 kg capacity
and layer method of spawning should preferably be
adopted 500-750 gm of spawn for 100kg compost is
sufficient. Temp of incubation room should be
maintained at 23- 25 deg C during spawnrun and R.H of
85- 90% is needed during incubation of the spawned
compost.
43
Agro
forestry/forestry
Vegetative stage Proper drainage should be maintained in forest nurseries
to avoid water stagnation. Semi uprooted and weak trees
which are a potential hazard should be felled to avoid
any accident. It is time for collection of Ulmus villosa
seeds to raise in a forest nursery.
Fisheries
Developmental stages
Trout brood stock needs a special check for fungal
infection. Isolate any sick fish and maintain ideal
stocking density. Farmers are advised to keep track of
trout seed (fingerlings) in terms of nutrition and disease
management. If there is any mortality or morbidity
immediately contact fish health expert at AAHM,
Faculty of Fisheries (Rangil).
In a month or two, carp fish species will enter in
breeding season. The brood stock needs to be fed proper
nutrition (32% crude protein and 15% crude lipid).
Rainy season is going to bring huge volume of water, it
is advised to keep track of water levels in trout raceways
and carp ponds. Maintain proper aeration and water
transparency.
General guidelines to farmers for protection against COVID-19 disease.
Maintain physical distance (min 2m) while working at farm facility. Use protective gear while
marketing the produce. Disinfect the farm area regularly. Entry of visitors or outsiders is to be
restricted. Only those who are free from symptoms of cold/flu/fever etc should be allowed to
work in the farm. After work, wash your hands and legs thoroughly at least for 20-30 sec with
soap. Don’t spit in open especially in farm premises. Disinfect all farm equipments using
bleaching powder (15-20g in 10L of water) or Sodium hypochloride (0.25%).Take warm
water bath after attending farm work.
Note: There are no reports of covid-19 transmission from animals to humans.
(Nodal Officer)
“Before sowing, ensure treatment of seeds with recommended pesticides / biopesticides.”
“ Carry out open field operations when the soil becomes workable and under favorable
weather conditions”