Vegetables Annul Meet

Nuziveedu Seeds conducted vegetables annual internal meet, which has reviewed the year that has gone by and future growth in vegetable segment. Our CMD Mr. Mandava Prabhakar Rao set a vision for the team and gave away awards to best performers in the division. Mr. Ramesh Viswanathan, COO, Nuziveedu Seeds, made a presentation on efficiency improvement among marketing team members. Dr. S.K. Tripathi and Mr. Herse presented a brief of the future of hybrids from R&D. Mr. D V Ranga Rao, Head – SCM and Mr. Anoop Kumar Dwivedi, National Sales Manager – Vegetables and other marketing team members participated in the event.

How to Grow - Bajra

 

 

 

Preparation of Soil

• Medium to heavy soils and light textured soils of low inherent fertility, good drainage and black soils. Crop does not tolerate soil acidity.
• The crop needs very fine tilth. It is essential to do summer ploughing by mould-board plough and after onset of monsoon the field should be harrowed twice or thrice followed by planking the field so that a fine tilth may be obtained.

Sowing

• June-July (onset of monsoon) or February to June or a summer crop after Rabi as it is short duration when compared to either jowar or maize.
• Seed Rate: 1.5 kg/acre The organo-mercurial compounds like Cerasan or Agrosan should be used @ 2.5 to 3.0 g/ha of seed to control downy mildew or green ear, smut and ergot disease.
• Row to row – 30cm solid row or may be broadcasted in level seed beds .: 45 cm x 15 cm .Thinning within 2 weeks should be compulsory. Earthing up also increases the crop growth

Fertilizer Application

• Apply four tons FYM/acre during the last plough. 20 kg N, 15 kg P2 O5 and 12 kg K2O/ acre as basal dose and 15 Kg N/acre  as top dressing at 20 – 30 days  after sowing

Irrigation

• Depending upon the nature of the soil, irrigation should be given whenever necessary.
• Bajra can withstand to drainage to some extent. In ill drained soils provision of drainage channel of one meter width for every 10 meters length of field. It can withstand drought also and lesser number of irrigations required for fodder crops.

Crop Management

• Weed Control SprayingofAtrazine@1kgai/hain 200 ltr. of water within 3 days after sowing as per emergence and on need basis. 2,4-D @ 1 kg ai/ha, 15-20 days after sowing should be sprayed.
• Downy mildew or green ear disease is prevalent in bajra growing tracts of Andhra Pradesh. Spraying of Mancozeb or Zineb @ 3g/L of water once or twice depending of the intensity of disease. Sugary diseases and ergot diseases can be controlled by spraying ziram or zineb + copper oxychloride (0.025%) two times with a gap of week days at the time of flowering.
• The damage by grass hoppers in the initial stages and by blister beetles at the time of flowering can be controlled by dusting carbaryl 4%. Early planting should be taken up to avoid infestation by shootfly. Increase the seed rate and uproot infested seedlings. Application of carbofuran or phorate @ 1kg a.i/ha.

Harvesting, Storage and Drying

• Harvesting for 2-3 times. Proper drying and staking before threshing with rollers or bullocks is advised.
• For easy separation of grain, the ear head should be dried well before threshing. Threshing may be done eitherby beating the ear heads with sticks or by trampling the ear heads under bullock’s feet. The separated grains must be cleaned, dried in sun to bring about 12-34 percent moisture.

Dr. N V Naidu of Agriculture University visits NSL Seeds’ facility

Dr. N V Naidu, Director of Seeds, Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University, Hyderabad visited NSL Seeds’ Kothur plant recently. Mr. S R M Prasad, GM, Supply Chain Management, NSL Seeds, gave them

an understanding of plant activities. Dr Naidu, has seen the cob drying activity, processing activity through Cimbria machine and online packing activity etc. Mr. Prasad taken the visitors though the conditioned storage facilities. Dr Naidu was quite happy to see such a large infrastructure and seed conditioning activities at NSL.

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Cotton : NCS-207 Mallika Bt 2

Plant Height	:	Very Tall
Distinguishing Morphological Characters	:	Open, Big light green leaves, 2 – 3 Monopodia, 18 – 20 sympodia
Days to 50% flowering	:	50-60
Maturity Group	:	Medium
Reaction to Major Pests	:	Resistant to American Bollworm, Pink Bollwom and Spotted Bollworm Tolerant to sucking pests, Jassids and Whitefly
Petal & Pollen Colour and Spot	:	Cream petal, Yellow pollen, petal spot absent
Boll Shape & Size	:	Ovate & Very Large.
Agronomic Features	:	Responds to added fertilizers
Quality of Produce	:	Ginning 35 – 36%, Staple Length: > 32.5 mm,Strength: 21 – 24, Mic: 3.0-3.9
Reaction to Stresses	:	Suitable to varied agro-climatic conditions
Special Features / USP’s	:	Tolerance to Jassids, Wider adaptability and long staple fibre

Visit of Agricultural Scientists Team From ANGRAU

In the month of March 2014, a team Agricultural Scientists headed by Dr A Padmasree, Scientist and Head-SRTC from Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar visited Kothur plant to have a practical exposure Seed Processing and Packing. They were briefed about all the activities at the plant i.e. Cob drying facilities, Processing, Packing, Cold storage facilities and Seed Testing by Sri S R M Prasad, GM-SCM, Sri Ch Narayana Swamy, AGM-QA , Sri K Krishna Murthy, Sr Manager-Admin & Sri U Madhusudhan, Dy Manager-QA.
The team felt that it was a great experience to go through all the activities as it has given them the practical exposure of Seed Production and has gained knowledge about cob drying, storage conditioned etc.

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Visit of INCOTEC delegates to Kothur

INCOTEC delegates team including Ms. Melissa Mocking, Research Technology Specialist, Netherlands & Dr Ma

nish Patel, Executive Director, India, Ahmedabad visited Kothur plant on 5th March 2014. They were accompanied by S R M Prasad, GM-SCM & Sri Ch Nageswara Rao, AGM-P&P, who explained all the seed processing activities like Cleaning, drying, Seed testing, chemical treatment and packing.
At Kothur, Seed is coated by using various polymers, insecticides and fungicides to protect from the soil or seed born diseases. They also visited the conditioned storage unit where the seed is kept viable by maintain the required temperature and humidity. They are very much delighted with the facilities at the kothur plant.

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