The ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore has organized an online Scientist-Farmer interactive session on Thursday for soya farmers jointly in association with Atma Project, Department of Agriculture, District Indore, Solidaridad Bhopal and ITC limited Madhya Pradesh. More than 2000 soya growers form major soybean growing states like Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan attended the event in which the institute scientists delivered technical message for adopting preventing measures for management of weed, insect-pest and diseases in the coming days.
The program was simultaneously webcasted using social media channels of ICAR-IISR especially its Facebook page, Telegram and YouTube channel and zoom platform.
In the initial session of this discussion, BU Dupare, Principal Scientist (Agriculture Extension) of the Institute, explained the importance of the expected incidence and different insects over longer period on account of different planting dates favoring more life cycles resulting in yield losses and increased cost. At the outset the co-organizers of the event especially Suresh Motwani of Solidaridad, Rakesh Mohan Yadav, of ITC Limited, and Shirley Thomas, Project Director, ATMA district Indore expressed their feedback regarding present crop condition in their respective areas and congratulated the ICAR-IISR scientists for taking initiative to organize this programme in the interest of the farming community.
On this occasion the Director-in-Charge of the Institute, D Billore, in his address to the farmers, said that this year the sowing has been done for a long time, due to which the problems of pest and diseases receive congenial environment for longer period to persist.
In his brief address he cautioned not to use two chemicals which are not recommended for soybean crop. In this discussion, RK Verma, Scientist (Agronomy) discussed about the different ways of managing the weeds including recommended herbicides to be applied after 15-20 days of sowing for weed management. He suggested the use of Imazthapyr@ 1litre/ha and Imazethapyr+Imazamax100g/hafor the control of broad and narrow leaf weeds.
Dr. Lokesh Kumar Meena, Scientist (Entomology) in his brief address on this occasion, suggested the spray of Chloratreniliprol(150 ml/ha) for the control of insect pests like blue beetle, linseed catterpillar, white fly in the early stage of soybean crop. Whereas Dr. Laxman Singh Rajput, Scientist (Plant Disease Physiology) informed that due to excessive rainfall at this time, diseases like collar rot and Rhizoctonia aerial blight occur in the roots of the plant, for which solution Hexaconazole and Propiconazole should be used.