Late sown wheat usually gives lesser yield because it avails shorter period of time as compared to early sown wheat. Wheat is a crop that gives maximum yield when it takes proper time for completion of its stages. If we want to accelerate its growth and development process, some tips are given in this video which should be followed. Production technology of wheat is modified according to the conditions faced by late planted crop. Technical aspects of production technology have also been discussed in this video.
Late planted or December planted wheat usually gives less yield because wheat crop does not complete its proper life cycle. It lacks the time to be mature enough to produce maximum yield. In spite of such conditions, some farmer adopt several techniques that help them to gain the maximum yield. Their strategy plays an important role for getting higher yield. In this video clip, I have given some suggestions to increase the yield of wheat crop in case of late sowing.
Wheat seed rate has been and still is a common controversy of among the farmers and agricultural researchers under unique cultural conditions throughout Punjab. We have not only justified the strength of 50 kg over 40 and 60 kg/acre but video clips of data supporting the reasoning of better yield of 50 kg have also been discussed in this video. It has been stressed that inspite of lesser germination in 40 kg seed rate, production of 50 maunds of wheat grain per acre is possible but on the expense of more inputs in case of early planted crop. 60 kg seed rate can not deliver better results in case of early planting. Its yield may sometimes be at par but quality can not match with 50 kg/acre. Intra row plant competition may be so hard that most plants remain weak and may have only a single tiller in case of 60 kg/acre. As regards the 50 kg/acre, it is the king seed rate which provides 50 maunds per acre even with lesser input of fertilizers. That is why, department of agriculture recommends this seed rate for most common conditions all over Punjab to achieve an optimum yield. Production technology of wheat revolves about this seed rate in present conditions of climate and soils in our country. The deviation from this seed rate leads to lesser production and yield and we do not get better health and growth of plants in wheat crop due to this factor.
Use of 50 kg/acre seed is a general recommendation from the department of agriculture for medium season (November) planted wheat crop in most of the normal soils of Punjab Province. In this video, we have argued about and endorsed why this recommendation is better than 30-40 or 60-70 kg/acre in most cases.
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