Rabi crop: Farmers should adopt this measure to protect Rabi crops from cold wave
Rabi crop: If you are also cultivating wheat, mustard and barley crops in this Rabi season, then know about the guidelines issued by the Agriculture Department to protect the crop from cold wave or frost. Assistant Agriculture Officer Narpat Singh Chauhan from the Agriculture Department Sirohi said that farmers should adopt some measures to protect Rabi crops from frost or cold wave.
If farmers are cultivating wheat, then they should make a solution of 100-125 liters of commercial sulfuric acid or dimethyl sulfoxide 0.1 percent (1 ml per liter of water) and spray it on the wheat leaves at the rate of per bigha in the afternoon to prevent the weather from adversely affecting the plant growth and ears.
Pay attention to irrigation in mustard crop
Farmers cultivating mustard should also spray 100-125 liters of sulfuric acid or dimethyl sulfoxide 0.1 percent (1 ml per liter of water) per bigha during the afternoon when the leaves of the crop are dry, in the period of possible frost (when the minimum temperature reaches 4 degrees Celsius and cold wind is blowing from the north and the sky is clear) to prevent the problem of grain bursting in the plants.
This should be repeated during the period of possible frost. Farmers can also adopt alternative measures to protect mustard from frost. If there is a possibility of frost, the field should be irrigated. The heat remains for a long time in the moist soil and the temperature does not decrease suddenly.
Take these measures in the Jowar crop
The agricultural officer said that if there is frost in the Jowar crop, there is a problem of burning of the crop and its growth being affected. In such a situation, if there is a possibility of frost, the farmer should do light irrigation in the crop and smoke should be spread around the field on the night when there is a possibility of frost. Farmers cultivating gram should also spray sulphur like mustard and wheat to protect the crop from frost.
