Crop Weather Report 23/07/2010

Soyabean
Soybean is a short day plant. It completes its life cycle in 100 days under Indian condition whereas it completes its lifecycle in 180 days in other countries where yield level is very high. It require frequent rainfall for growth and high RH for seed development and dry period for maturity .Delay sowing beyond 15th of July drastically reduces the yield level in India . Continous rain, overcasted condition helps in the spread of soybean mosaic disease. The statewise progress is given as under :

Madhya Pradesh
Among the major producing districts (Shivpuri, Guna, Vidisha, Rajgarh, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Ratlam, Dhar, Ujjain, Indore, Dewas, Shajapur, Harda, Khandwa, Seoni, Chindwara, Balaghat, Hosangabad, Sehore and Raisen), the cumulative rainfall for the last ten days varied between 55-122 mm , temperature varied between 23-32 C and RH 80-90 % . The rains are also forecasted upto end of July. The above weather condition is very much congenial for the initial growth and development of soybean

Maharashtra
The major soybean producing area (Wardha, Nagpur, Chandrapur, Nanded, Yavatmal, Amravati, Sangli, Satara, Latur, Osmanabad, Kolhapur, Beed, Jalna, Parbhani, Nashik, Ahmadnagar, Buldhana, Jalgaon, Hingoli and Akola . Received 60-200mm rainfall and temperature varied 21-31 C and RH 90-95 % . The weather conditions has been very much favourable and forecasted weather will be helpful for the growth and development of the crop which may boost the production.


Rajasthan
The major producing districts Pali, Rajasmand, Baran, Kota, Chittaurgarh, Jhalawar, Barmer and Udaipur . The cumulative rainfall for ten days varied between 30-60 mm and exception is Barmer where rainfall was only 15 mm ,temperature is also comparatively high .The prevailing weather condition is not very much congenial due to high temperature and poor rainfall which may affect the crop growth.
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Coffee
The major producing districts in the states Karnataka( Haveri, Chikmanglur and Kodagu) , Kerala(Kasargod, Kannur, Palakkad and Wayanad) and Tamil Nadu (Coimbatore, Salem, Dhamapuri and Dindigul) received good amount of rainfall for the last ten days and the rainfall pattern will be continued. The weather condition is favourable for the berry development.
Fresh planted saplings will get the advantage from the weather condition for their growth and development.

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Black Pepper
The crop remain in flowering from May to August,which requires moderate temperature and frequent rainfall with good drainage for the berry development . The state wise details are given as under :

Kerala
The major pepper producing districts Kannur, Kasargod ,Kozikhode, Idukki, Palakkad, Malappuram, Pathanamthitta and Thiruvanthapuram received good amount of rainfall and likely to get rainfall which is very much congenial for flowering and berry development.

Tamil Nadu
Among the major pepper producing districts Namakkal, Nilgiris and Dindigur received good amount of
rainfall which is very much congenial for continued flowering and berry development .

The rainfall received in both the above states is also helpful for the growth of new rooted saplings.

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