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Field Preparation |
- Light soils are best suited for arhar cultivation.
- Light soils can be prepared by easily by harrowing it two to
three times.
- Remove all stubbles from the field.
- Make the field weed free.
- Ensure that moisture is conserved in the soils especially in
the rain fed areas.
- If the field is having weed problem then stale seed bed
technique can be used.
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Let a heavy flush of weeds emerge and be
destroyed with herbicide before sowing the crop, without any
tillage on it.
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Most of the weeds seeds germinate from the
top 5cm of soil surface in about a weeks time, these weed
seedlings can be destroyed either with a contact herbicide or by
shallow type tillage implement like a spike tooth harrow.
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In stale seed bed technique depending upon
the availability of time and resources one or two flushes of
weeds can be destroyed before planting of the crop.
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Seed & Sowing |
- Treat the seed swith 2.5 g thiram + 1 g PCNB per kg of seed.
- After treatment dry the seeds in shade.
- Seed inoculation should always be done after seed treatment.
- Application of rhizobium culture at the rate of 5 to 10 g
per kilogram of seed is suitable for arhar crop.
- After mixing the seeds with rhizobium culture dry the seed
in shade and then immediately use it for sowing.
- Mixing the seed with 5 g of PSB is also found suitable for
the arhar crop.
- Rhizobium culture and PSB can also mixed and can used for
seed inoculation jointly.
- For this 10 g Rhizobium + 5 g PSB is mixed together and the
the seeds are inoculated with it.
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Harvest
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- Harvesting should be done, only when more then 90 % of the
pods mature.
- On maturity the pods and the grains turn golden brown in
colour.
- Manual harvesting is done by cutting with help of sickle.
- The harvested stalks should be stalked by making straight
heaps on pucca floor.
- After harvesting the grains are left in the open sun for
drying.
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