Integrated Pest Management

•  Insect Management 

•  Disease Management 

•  Weed Management 

•  Nematode Management 

•  Nutrient Disorder Management 

•  Resistant Varieties Information

•  Natural Enemy Information

•  IPM Modules

Agronomic Practices

Field Preparation

• Light soils are suitable for Urd cultivation.
• Immediately after first rains, one ploughing and two harrowing are recommended.
• Destroy weeds and other foreign materials from the field and adjoining areas.
• Soils having 7-8 pH are suitable.
• Acidic and alkaline soils are not suitable for this crop
• Drainage canals should be made to remove excess water from the field.
• If the field is having weed problem then stale seed bed technique can be used.

• Let a heavy flush of weeds emerge and be destroyed with herbicide before sowing the crop, without any tillage on it.

• 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.

• 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.

Seed & Sowing

• Treat the seed with 3 gm thiram + 1 gm carbendazim per kg of seed.
• For the above use old earthen pot or tripal.

Harvest

• Harvesting should be done after crop is matured and most of the pods turn black.
• Harvesting should be done in the early hours to minimize shattering losses.
• Over maturity may result in shattering losses.