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Red Gram

This document provides instructions for growing red gram. It details land preparation, seed treatment with biofertilizers and fungicides, application of fertilizers, sowing methods, weed management, watering, harvesting, and intercropping. Red gram seeds should be treated with rhizobium and phosphobacteria biofertilizers before sowing. Fertilizer amounts depend on whether the crop is rainfed or irrigated. Weeds can be controlled with pre-emergence herbicides or hand weeding. The crop requires irrigation at key growth stages and should be harvested when pods are mature by picking or cutting whole plants. Red gram can be intercropped with groundnut or cotton in various row configurations depending on rainfall

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Red Gram

This document provides instructions for growing red gram. It details land preparation, seed treatment with biofertilizers and fungicides, application of fertilizers, sowing methods, weed management, watering, harvesting, and intercropping. Red gram seeds should be treated with rhizobium and phosphobacteria biofertilizers before sowing. Fertilizer amounts depend on whether the crop is rainfed or irrigated. Weeds can be controlled with pre-emergence herbicides or hand weeding. The crop requires irrigation at key growth stages and should be harvested when pods are mature by picking or cutting whole plants. Red gram can be intercropped with groundnut or cotton in various row configurations depending on rainfall

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RED GRAM

PREPARATION OF THE LAND Prepare the land to fine tilth and apply 12.5 t FYM/ha SEED TREATMENT Treat the seeds with Carbendazim or Thiram @ 2 g/kg of seed 24 hours before sowing (or) with talc formulation of Trichoderma viride @ 4g/kg of seed (or) Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 10 g/kg seed. Biocontrol agents are compatible with biofertilizers. First treat the seeds with biocontrol agents and then with rhizobium. Fungicides and biocontrol agents are incompatible. TREATMENT OF THE SEEDS WITH BIOFERTILIZER Fungicide treated seeds should be again treated with a bacterial culture. Treat with Rhizobial culture CRR6. There should be an interval of atleast 24 hours after fungicidal treatment for giving the bacterial culture treatment. For red lateritic soil Rhizobial culture VPR 1 is effective. Treat the seeds with 3 packets (600 g/ha) of Rhizobial culture CRR6 and 3 packets (600 g/ha) of Phosphobacteria developed at TNAU using rice kanji as binder. If the seed treatment is not carried out apply 10 packets of Rhizobium (2000 g/ha) and 10 packets(2000 g) of Phosphobacteria with 25 kg of FYM and 25 kg of soil before sowing.

APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS Apply fertilizers basally before sowing. Rainfed : 12.5 kg N + 25 kg P2O5 + 12.5 kg K2O +10 kg S*/ha Irrigated : 25 kg N + 50 kg P2O5 + 25 kg K2O + 20 kg S*/ha Soil application of 25 kg ZnSo4/ha under irrigated condition

SOWING THE SEEDS Dibble the seeds adopting the following spacing. Variety Pure crop Mixed crop CO(Rg) 7 45 cm x 30 cm 120 cm x 30 cm COPH 2 45 cm x 15 cm .. Vamban 1, APK 1, Vamban (Rg) 3 45 cm x 20 cm 120 cm x 30 cm CO 6, Vamban 2 90 cm x 30 cm 240 cm x 30 cm Bund Crop 60 cm for BSR 1 and 30 cm for others. 6. WEED MANAGEMENT Pre emergence application of Pendimethalin 2 litres /ha 3 days after sowing mixed with 500 l of water using Backpack/Knapsack/Rocker sprayer using flat fan type of nozzle. Then irrigate the field. Following this, one hand weeding may be given on 30-35days after sowing. If herbicide is not given, give two hand weedings on 20 and 35days after sowing.

WATER MANAGEMENT Irrigate immediately after sowing, 3rd day after sowing, bud initiation, 50 % flowering and pod development stages. Water stagnation should be avoided. SPRAYING OF DIAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE OR UREA, NAA AND SALICYLIC ACID HARVESTING THE CROP Picking the matured pods and drying and processing Harvesting the whole plants heaping ,drying and processing. INTER-CROPPING Raising one row of long duration redgram varieties as inter crop for every six rows of groundnut (6:1) is recommended for rainfed crops. Raising one row of short and medium duration redgram as inter crop for every four rows of groundnut (4:1) is recommended for rainfed as well as for irrigated crops. Multistoreyed cropping: For rainfed Vertisols of Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi districts recording more than 300 mm of rainfall during the crop growth period, multistoreyed cropping system Agathi + Redgram (CO 5) + Cotton (MCU 10) + Blackgram (CO 5) is highly profitable. (Agathi in I tier with 1 x 1 m spacing - Redgram in II tier with a spacing of 45 x 20 cm - Cotton in the III tier with a spacing of 45 x 15 cm - Blackgram in the IV tier with the spacing of 30 x 10 cm).For rainfed Vertisols receiving less than 300 mm of rainfall, Agathi + Sorghum (CO 26) + Cotton (MCU 10) + Blackgram (CO 5) system is ideal. For both systems, apply 40 kg N and 20 kg P2O5/ha. (Agathi in I tier with a spacing of 1 x 1 m - sorghum in II tier with a spacing of 45 x 15 cm - cotton in III tier with the spacing of 45 x 15 cm and Blackgram in IV tier with 30 x 10 cm). NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS Red gram / Green gram /Black gram /Cowpea

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