Year 33, No: - 02/2026-27/Tue.                                                                                                                                                                    Time: 2.30 PM                                                                                                   Date- 07th April, 2026

Weather during current week (From 01st to 07th April, 2026)

            Slight cloudy weather conditions were observed during the week. Maximum temperature ranged between 28.9°C and 36.0°C (weekly normal 34.5°C). Minimum temperature ranged between 16.2°C and 18.9°C (weekly normal 17.1°C). Relative humidity at 7.21 AM ranged between 75 and 92 percent and that at 2.21 PM ranged between 28 and 63 percent. The average bright sunshine hour during the week was 6.6 hours per day (weekly normal 8.5 hours). The average wind speed recorded was 4.3 km/h (normal 4.7 km/h). Mean evaporation rate during the period was 4.6 mm/day (weekly normal 6.5 mm/day). Wind during morning was from calm and evening was from different directions.

Weather based Agromet-Advisories (for the period ending on 12th April, 2026)

 Advisory based on advices received from the subject matter specialists of agromet-advisory committee:

• Keeping in view of light rainfall in the past and coming days’ farmers are advised not to do any type of spray and do proper management in standing crops and vegetables. 
• Farmers should tie and properly cover harvested crops, otherwise, strong winds may blow the crops from one field to another, and rainfall may damage the crops.
• Before storage, grains should be properly cleaned and it should be dried to the recommended level of moisture content not more than 12%. Godowns should be properly cleaned by removing all the grains and other storage matter of previous crop. Cracks and crevices of the walls should be cleaned and repaired. Farmers are advised to treat gunny bags with 5% Neem solutions. The gunny bags should be dried in the sun so that eggs and pupating stages of insects as well as inoculum of diseases get destroyed. farmers are advised to keep harvested crops and grains in the protected place. 
• In present weather condition, harvesting of mature wheat crop is advised. Harvested crops should be properly tied and covered to avoid being carried away by winds. Adequate drying of harvested grains before storage should be done. 
• Farmers are advised to start sowing of green gram. Variety: - Pusa Visal, Pusa Ratna, Pusa 5931, Pusa Baisakhi, PDM-11, SML-32, SML-668, Samrat. Seed treatment with crop specific Rhizobium culture as well as phosphorus solubilizing bacteria is also advised. Farmers are advised to ensure proper moisture before sowing for optimum germination.
• Installation of bird perches in tomato, pea, brinjal crops is advised to control fruit borer insect. Hand picking of damaged fruit and burying are advised. Installation of pheromone trap @ 2-3 traps per acre of crop field is advised for monitoring the fruit borer. If pest population is high, spraying of Bt. 1.0 gram/litre of water is advised. After 15 days, if pest population is more than ETL, farmers are advised to spray Spinosad 48 EC @ 1 ml. /4 litres of water in morning or evening time.
• Present temperature is suitable for germination of french bean (Pusa parvati, Contender), vegetable lobia (Pusa komal, Pusa sukomal), amaranthus (Pusa kiran, Pusa lal chaulai), lady’s finger (A-4, Parbani Kranti and Arka Anamika), bottle gourd (Pusa naveen, Pusa sandesh), cucumber (Pusa uday), ridge gourd, sponge gourd (Pusa sneha) and summer radish (Pusa chetki). Procurement of seeds should be done from a certified source. Farmers are advised to ensure proper moisture before sowing for optimum germination.
• In present weather condition constant monitoring of timely sown seed onion crop against attack of thrips should be done. 
• Temperature is suitable for sowing of fodder maize (Variety – African Tall) and lobia. Sowing of HM-4, hybrid cultivar of baby corn may also be done in this week. 

Members of Agro advisory Committee                         

Dr. Ananta Vashisth (Nodal Officer, Agricultural Physics)

Dr. Subash Nataraja (Head, Division of Agricultural Physics)

Dr. P. Krishnan (Professor, Division of Agricultural Physics) 

Dr. Deb Kumar Das (Principal Scientist, Agricultural Physics)

Dr. Sachin Suresh Suroshe (Project coordinator, AICRP on Honeybee)

Dr. Dinesh Kumar (Principal Scientist, Agronomy)

Dr. A.K. Singh (Principal Scientist and Incharge, CATAT)

Dr. Gograj Singh Jat (Senior Scientist, Vegetable Science) 

Dr. Bishnu Maya (Senior Scientist, Plant Pathology)