Madhya Pradesh: Soybean Crop Wilting; Agriculture Department Advises Spray Of Chemicals

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): There are reports from several parts of the district that owing to insecticides, the soybean crops standing in the fields are suddenly drying up. However, the agriculture department said it was due to a blight and advised spray of a chemical over the crops.

Deputy director, agriculture CL Kevda informed on Tuesday that there were complaints of sudden drying up of soybean plants from some areas of the district. The symptoms were of Rhizoctonia Aerial Blight.

The agriculture department has advised the farmers to spray fungicide fluxapyroxad + pyraclostrobin (300 g/ha) or pyraclostrobin + epoxiconazole (750 mg/ha) for its control. Initial symptoms of anthracnose disease are also being seen. For control, farmers should make a solution of Tebuconazole 25.9 EC (625 mg/ha) or Tebuconazole 38.39 SC (625 mg/ha) and spray.

If symptoms of yellow mosaic are visible, initially they should remove the plants from the field and spray flonicamid (200 gm/ha) and thiamethoxam + lambda cyhalothrin (125 mg/ha) or betacyfluthin + imidacloprid (350 mg/ha). This would also control stem fly.

T-shaped bird perches on the soybean crop will also help in reducing the number of caterpillars as insectivorous birds will prey on them. For the control of army worm pests on the maize crop, farmers should spray chlorantraniliprole 150 ml per hectare and keep constant monitoring. 

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Non-eligible farmers can now get crop insurance by Aug 14

Now even those farmers of the district, who were not eligible to get their crop insured will be able to do so till August 14.

CL Kevda, Deputy Director Agriculture, informed that crop insurance is a boon to compensate for crop loss incurred due to natural disasters. Under the PM Crop Insurance Scheme, the work of crop insurance has started from July 01.

The date for crop insurance has been extended by the government. Now, the last date for crop insurance is fixed 14 August for non eligible farmers and 31 August for loanee farmers.

To get crop insurance, farmers are required to submit bank passbook, crop sowing certificate, Aadhar card, ledger and affidavit for sharecropper farmer or rented land.