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Crops | ||||||||||||||
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Name of the crop | ||||||||||||||
Ground nut |
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Botanical name | ||||||||||||||
A rachis hypogea |
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Climate condition | ||||||||||||||
Rainfed as well as irrigated. Humid, sub-humid as well as dry, with temp. range between 21 to 27o C. |
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Method of planting/sowing | ||||||||||||||
Dibbling |
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Distance between plants rows | ||||||||||||||
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Depth of sowing | ||||||||||||||
Medium to heavy but well drained, upland with pH 6 to 7.5 |
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Package of practices | ||||||||||||||
Sowing time Kharif - 2nd fortnight of July. Winter Rabi - 15th November to 15th December |
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Polythene mulch technology | ||||||||||||||
Sowing of groundnut using 7-micron thick polythen mulch of 90 cm width and sowing at a spraying of 20 X 10 cm for erect and 30 X 10 cm for spreading types. |
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Irrigation | ||||||||||||||
Pre sowing irrigation and after this irrigations at 15 days internal upto flowering stage and then irrigation at 10 to 12 days interval up to pod development stage. |
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Weeding | ||||||||||||||
Application of herbicides Busalin @ 5 ml/lit. of water or oxadiargyl @ 3 ml/lit of water at 2 to 3 days after sowing and one hand weeding at 30 days after sowing |
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Earthling up & drum rolling | ||||||||||||||
At the time of peg formation for Erect-types – 45 to 50 days after sowing for semi spreading stages 50 to 65 days after sowing. |
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Seed rate/ha | ||||||||||||||
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Care before sowing | ||||||||||||||
Seed treatment with Thirum @ 2 gm/kg seed. Rhizobium culture @ 250 gm/10kg seed |
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Fertilizer applied | ||||||||||||||
25:50:50 kg NPK/ha as well as in deficient areas Gypsum @ 50 kg and sulphate @ 25 kg/ha once in three years. |
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Harvesting | ||||||||||||||
Harvesting is done after 80% pods are matured. Groundnut crop is harvested by digging pods or by pulling the plants from field. Groundnut crop is harvested when seed moisture content is at 18 to 20 per cent. |
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Yield | ||||||||||||||
Average and range Average – 25 to 30 q/ha
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