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Devshibhai Hathijibhai Thakor,<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
Mehsana<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
Gujarat<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
India<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
Proper irrigation saves cumin<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
Farmers generally believe that excessive moisture leads to various kinds of diseases in cumin. Devshiji Thakore has been irrigating his field judiciously to prevent his cumin crop from being injected with ‘kaliyo’ disease. He made his plots small so that not much water is collected in the fields. A light irrigation is given right after sowing. The next irrigation is given after a gap of seven to eight days. And a third and final irrigation is given at the pre-flowering stage. Later, the irrigation is totally stopped. Last year many farmers of this area, who irrigated their crop four or more times, suffered due to the infestation of ‘kaliyo’ disease in their crop. Devshibhai’s field remained unaffected.Devshibhai kept his crop free from dew also by using the following technique. Everyday, in the early morning hours, two persons holding a cotton or a coir rope between them, walk through the plants so that the rope gently touches the plants and the dew drops are knocked off. (Readers may recall that similar practice has been reported in HB from Sri Lanka, India and also from China (see HB vol 5(2):10). :Ed)<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
Honey Bee, 8(4):15, 1997<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
Vanarsinhji Thakor and Jalamsinh Zala<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
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