MNC Fertico

Land Preparation

To break up all the clods and get a fine tilth, use an iron plough or a country plough three to four times on a tractor while using a disc.

Seed rate and spacing

Seed rate: Spreading type varieties: 80-100 kg/ha Bunch type varieties: 100-125 kg/ha Spacing: Spreading varieties: 60 cm x 10 cm Bunch type varieties: 45 cm x 10 cm

Intercultural operation

The crop should typically get a hand-weeding and one or two hoeings with bullock-drawn equipment, the first approximately three weeks after sowing and the second and third between a fortnight and a month later, for weed control and to preserve the soil in a friable state. In the case of bunch and semi-spreading kinds, earthing up can be done to help the pegs penetrate the soil as deeply as possible.

Crop nutrition management

Irrigation Management

Due to the prolonged dryness that the kharif crop experiences, particularly during the pod-formation stage, more irrigation should be provided. The time between irrigations for the irrigated groundnut ranges from 8 to 12 days, depending on the soil condition. Critical is the peg-formation phase.

Weed management

Pre-sowing: Fluchloralin at 2.0 l/ha soil application Pre-emergence: Fluchloralin 2.0 l/ha or Pendimethalin @ 3.3l/ha Based on weed density, use Imazethapyr at 750 ml/ha 20–30 days after planting as a post-emergence spray.

Climate and soil

A lengthy, warm growth season is necessary for groundnut, a tropical plant. For its growth and development, temperatures between 21-26 °C are optimum. The plant needs a month or so of warm, dry weather for the ripening period. The best soil for its cultivation is a well-drained, light, loose, friable, sandy loam that is rich in calcium and has a reasonable quantity of organic matter. Soils with a pH of 6.0 to 6.5 can produce good yields.

Insect pest management

Groundnut leaf miner: Aproaerema modicella

Place light traps at a rate of 12 per hectare.
Apply one of the pesticides listed below: Malathion 50 EC 1.25 l/ha, Methyl demeton 25% EC 1000 ml/ha, or Dimethiate 30 EC 660 ml/ha

Bihar hairy caterpillar: Spilosoma (Diacrisia) obliqua

Alternate natural hosts and plants that the hairy caterpillars harbour should be eliminated.
Eggs and newly emerging caterpillars should be collected in large quantities and destroyed.

Gram pod borer: Helicoverpa armigera

It is advisable to undertake deep summer ploughing.
Place 5 pheromone traps per hectare.
Quinolphos insecticide, 2ml per lit of water should be sprayed.

Tobacco caterpillar: Spodoptera litura

By putting up light and pheromone traps, you can keep an eye on when adult moths start to emerge.
Gather egg masses and eliminate
Neem oil (2%) Applying 20 lit/ha is recommended.
Any of the following pesticides can be sprayed: Quinalphos 25% EC at 1400 ml/ha or Imidacloprid 17.8% SL at 100-125 ml/ha

Plant diseases management

Early Leaf Spot

Apply 500 g/ha of carbendazim or 1000 g/ha of mancozeb or 1000 g/ha of Chlorothalonil.

Late Leaf Spot

It is advised to rotate your crops, particularly with non-host cereals.
The principal source of infection may be reduced by deeply burying agricultural waste in the soil and removing stray groundnut plants.
To manage the disease, spray Carbendazim 0.1% or Mancozeb 0.2%, or Chlorothalonil 0.2%.

Rust

Spray Mancozeb @1000g /ha to control rust

Stem Rot

cultivation of groundnuts on level or slightly elevated beds, deep ploughing to bury surface trash.
It is recommended to treat seeds with 4 g/kg of Trichoderma viridae.
It is advised to treat seeds with 3 g of Thiram + Carbendazim.

Harvesting and post-harvest management

Harvesting must occur at the proper stage of development.

when 70–80% of the leaves and stems have turned yellow.

when the shell's inner side becomes black.

For storage, seed shouldn't have more than 9% moisture content.