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November South West monsoon areas


November
South West monsoon areas
  • Weeding
  • Liming wherever necessary
  • Cover digging and light digging
  • Regulation of permanent shade
  • Swabbing spraying with Lindane 20 EC
  • Control measures against hairy caterpillar
  • Forking, mulching and hutting young plants in new clearings
  • Irrigation with sprinklers, depending on rain( '111 conditions
  • lime washing young dadp stems
  • Commencement of arabica harvesting and processing
  • Removal and burning of shot-hole borer infested twigs
  • Spot spraying against coffee berry borer
  • Nursery work
North-East monsoon areas
  • Regulation of dadap shade
  • Post-monsoon spraying with 0.5% Bordeaux mixture against leaf rust.
  • Rest as above.


DECEMBER
SOUTH-WEST MONSOON AREAS
  • Harvesting and processing of arabica
  • Scuffling
  • Fire path clearing
  • Liming wherever necessary
  • Mulching and shade hutting orplants in new cleanings
  • Nursery work
North-East arwtsoarr
  • Spraying with 0.5% Bordeaux mixture to be completed.
  • Rest as above.
JANUARY
SOUTH-WEST MONSOON AREAS
  • Harvesting and processing of arabica coffee/Robusta Coffee.
  • Collection of gleaning and disinfcstationdisposal of berries infested with bern borer.
  • Stripping off-season berries in berry borer-infested areas.
  • Pruning and handling of arabica coffee.
  • Control measures against rot mealybug.
  • Fire path cleaning.
  • Preparation of germination beds and sowing. Before sowing, seeds stay he treated with Vitavax 75 WI' at 0.66 gikg of seeds or tiavi,tin 50 WI' at I g..:kg seeds to protect against collar rot.
North-East area.

As above except item 6


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