Year 32, No: - 09/2025-26/Tue.                                                                                                      Time: 2.30 PM                                                                                                              Date- 29th April, 2025                          

Weather during current week (From 23rd April to 29th April, 2025)

             Clear weather conditions were observed during the week. Maximum temperature ranged between 39.1 °C and 42.6 °C (weekly normal 38.4 °C). Minimum temperature ranged between 18.2 °C and 24.5 °C (weekly normal 21.4 °C). Relative humidity at 7.21 AM ranged between 44 and 63 percent and that at 2.21 PM ranged between 32 and 40 percent. The average bright sunshine hour during the week was 8.5 hours per day (weekly normal 8.3 hours). The average wind speed recorded was 5.1 km/h (normal 4.7 km/h). Mean evaporation rate during the period was 8.3 mm/day (weekly normal 8.2 mm/day). Wind during morning and evening it was from different directions.

Weather based Agromet-Advisories (for the period ending on 04th May, 2025) 

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

• Sowing of green manure crop is advised where harvesting of rabi crop is over. For green manuring cluster bean, daincha, senai, lobia etc may be sown and ensure proper moisture for proper germination and growth of the crop. 
• To protect tomato, brinjal and chilli from increase in temperature, farmers are advised to do spray of 2 % solution of Naphthalene acetic acid (NAA), so that development of fruit cannot be stop.
• 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.
• Keeping in view of temperature forecast, farmers are advised for harvesting of mature vegetable crop at morning and evening and kept them in sheds.
• 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.
• 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.
• Deep ploughing of fields after harvesting of rabi crops is advised so that eggs and pupating stages of insects and weed seeds are destroyed.
• 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. 

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. B. S. Tomar (Head, Division of Vegetable Science)

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

Dr. Dinesh Kumar (Principal Scientist, Agronomy)

Dr. P. Sinha (Principal Scientist, Plant Pathology)

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