Season Seed Rate, Planting & Spacing

1] Season

§  Rainfed                           June- July 

§  Rabi                                 Sept - Oct  (by planting)

§  Summer Irrigated         Jan - Feb (by planting)

2] Seed Rate             15-20 Kg Per Hectare

3] Planting                Plant Population Of 4-5 L/Ha

4] Spacing 7.5 - 10 cm between plants, seed drills spacing of 22.5 -30 cm between rows 

Finger Millet Fertilizer Requirement

Pink Stem Borer Sesamia inferens & White Stem Borer Saluria inficita

ü  Neem Extract Azadirachtin 1000 EC 1.7 ml/lit of water

ü  Banlarva (Emamectin Benzoate 5 % SG) 4 g/10 lit of water

ü  Bell (Fipronil 5 % SC) 2-5 ml/lit of water

Aphids Rhopalosiphum maidis

ü  Spray KARGIL (Imidachloprid 30.5 % SC) 1.6 ml/Litre of Water

ü  Apply Phorate 10 % G @ 20 kg /ha

ü  Neem Extract Azadirachtin 1000 EC 1.7 ml/lit of water

ü  Dimethoate 30 % EC 7.0ml/10 lit 

Cutworm Spodoptera exigua

ü  Spray Chlorpyriphos 2 ml/lit in the collar region during evening hours.

ü  Carbaryl 50% WP 2.5 kg/ha

ü  Quinalphos 20% EC 2 lit/ha

ü  Phoshalone 35% EC  1.25 lit/ha

Ragi Leaf Hopper Cicadulina bipunctata

ü  Spray Dimethoate 30 EC @1.7 ml/lit

ü   Phosphomidon 100 EC 0.5 ml/lit

Blast Pyricularia grisea

ü  Spray DEFENSE (Carbendazim 12% + Mancozeb 63% WP) 2g/ litre of water

o   First spray immediately after noticing the symptoms.

o   Second and third sprays at flowering stage at 15 days interval.

ü  ZEB-75 (Mancozeb 75% WP) 2g/ litre of water     

ü  LAXYCO (Metalaxyl 8%  + Mancozeb 64% WP) 2g/ litre of water

Mottle streak Nucleorhabdovirus (Vector - Cicadulina bipuntella ,C. chinai)

ü  Spray Methyl Dematon 25% EC 500 ml/ha on noticing symptoms and repeat twice if

necessary at 20 days intervals for control of insect vectors

Yeild

20 - 25 Q/Ha