Rains pose threat to cotton, red gram crop in Telangana

With heavy rains lashing Telangana in excess of the last two weeks, farmers growing cotton and purple gram facial area threats from parawilt and phytophthora, respectively.

Cotton, which has been sown on in excess of 60 lakh acres in the Point out, is vulnerable to parawilt, a physiological problem, because of to prolonged waterlogging of the fields.

This is not caused by any fungi or bacterial assault, points out R Jagadeeshwar, Director (Exploration) at the Prof Jayashankar Telangana Point out Agricultural College (PJTSAU).

Pointing out that the current weather disorders are conducive for parawilt, he advises farmers to drain the water out of the fields as early as doable as prolonged waterlogging could deny the plant important vitamins given that it damages the root program.

Blight assault

He states there is a risk of phytophthora blight assault on purple gram, which is sown on in excess of 10 lakh acres. Farmers have absent for further acreage soon after the Point out governing administration recommended them to improve a lot more of it and not to improve maize this kharif.

The Point out grows purple gram on about 7.five lakh acres in the wet period.

The phytophtora blight much too is caused by too much water and absence of sunlight.

Farmers need to assure there is no waterlogging in the fields to let the plant safeguard its root program. Left unattended, this dilemma could cause significant injury to the crop.