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Agromet Advisories

Farmers and all other farm managements are advised to follow the guidelines of Government of Bangladesh to avoid infection and social transmission of CORONA virus (COVID-19). Precautions and safety measures   should be taken up to prevent the Carona virus spread. Simple measures include social distancing, maintaining personal hygiene by washing hands with soap, wearing of face mask, drink hot water, stay at home and cleaning of implements and machinery. Farmers should not work in a group; consult with a doctor in case of any symptom. Please stay at home does not visit the field until it is very necessary.

Salient Weather Conditions & Forecast

As per the weather forecast of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) during next 24 hours Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the district. Light to moderate fog may occur at places over the district during late night to morning. Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the district. As per the outlook issued by BMD for next 72 hours is likely little change. During last four days, no rainfall occurred over the district and as per the quantitative medium range weather forecast; no rainfall is likely during next five days.  Detail Agromet advisory are given below:

 

Aman Paddy

Ripening to Harvesting stages

• Drain out water from the paddy field 15 days before harvesting
• If the crop is 80% mature, collect it in a sunny day.

Boro paddy

Seedbed

• Continue to make seedbeds.
• Dry seedbeds can be made in areas where the incidence of cold wave is high. In this case 25-30 cm channel should be kept between each two plots.

Potato

• Provide irrigation as required.
• Insect attack can occur in potato cut warm. When you see an infected cut potato plant, turn the soil around it, find the worms, collect them and kill them. Insect infestation can be reduced by applying Sex Pheromone Trap + Furadan 5g (Carbofuran) 20 kg / ha during land preparation and before final irrigation.
• In addition, Chlorpyrifos 20 EC should be mixed with 5 ml per liter of water and sprayed on the roots and soil of the plant. Spray 30-40 days after potato planting.

 

Vegetables

• Apply light irrigation.

• For shoot and fruit borer in brinjal crops, infested shoots with grub should be collected and buried inside the soil.  Reducing spread out by using pheromone trap if pest population is high, use spray of approval dose of insecticides, if necessary or recommended local organic insecticides may be used.
• In case of infestation of flies in cucurbits type vegetables, use a combination of pheromone and poison traps. Pesticides of the alpha ciphermethrin group can be used.
• In case of powdery mildew in cucurbit type vegetables, apply hexaconazole or mencozeb.
• In case of Aphid attack in beans and cabbage, use the approved dose of Chlorpyrifos group of pesticides.

• Thrips attack in chilli can be controlled using adhesive white traps (40 per hectare). If the attack is severe, fipronil or dimethoate can be sprayed at the rate of 10 ml in 10 liters of water.

 

Horticultural crops

• Farmers are advised to go for inter cultural operations in mango orchard.
• In case of symptoms of Sigatoka disease on banana leaves, 0.5 ml of Score or 2 g of Noin or Bavistin or 0.1 ml of Econazole / Folico should be mixed in every liter of water and sprayed 2-3 times at intervals of 15-20 days.
• In case of banana beetle infestation, apply Isoprocarb / MIPC group pesticides.
• In order to control coconut mite, miticide should be applied to the affected trees by cutting and burning the young coconut. In addition, miticide should be applied on the leaves of young trees in the vicinity.
• If millibugs attack guava, apply approved pesticides. This insect can also be controlled by spraying powdered soap at the rate of 05 g per liter of water.
• Take necessary action in case of infestation of fruit flies in guava.
• Apply light irrigation as required.

 

Livestock

• Vaccine the cattle to prevent disease.
• Cattle should be fed hay as well as grass, leaves or granular feed.

• Keep the cattle house dry and clean.

• Black polythene or sacks can be used around the house to protect from the wind and hay in the floor to resist the cold  

 

Poultry

• Vaccine the birds to prevent disease.

• If symptoms of any disease appear, consult a veterinarian immediately for appropriate treatment

 

Fishery

• If there are leaves fall trees on the banks of the pond, clean the leaves regularly.
• If the pH in the pond water is between 6-8, apply 1 kg of dolochun and 1 kg of salt per decimal every 15 to 20 days or every one month at the beginning of winter. If the pH is low, the amount of lime should be increased.
• When the water level in the pond decreases in winter, supply water as required; keep the concentration of fish normal or low.
• If the pond water is contaminated, change the water