KVK, Palem organized Field Day and CCE on HDPS/CS in cotton at Nallavelli village on 21.10.2024.

KVK, Palem organized Field Day and CCE on HDPS/CS in cotton at Nallavelli (V), Nagarkurnool (M&D) on 21.10.2024. KVK, Palem organized a field Day at Sri. Ravinder Reddy Garu’s field. The farmer has adopted Closer spacing (90X30 cm) with Winner hybrid in 3 acres. The farmer has followed the best management practices including PGR spray & IPM practices. A crop cutting experiment (CCE) was conducted in100 m2 (10mX10m) area and picking was taken up to give a live demonstration to the fellow farmers, where 34.5 kg per 100 m2 was realized and the expected yield is 13.5 to 14 q/acre. Further, Dr. T. Prabhakar Reddy, Programme coordinator, KVK, Palem emphasized that how HDPS/CS in cotton is advantageous over the normal planting system by quoting previous success stories. Highlighted that the canopy management is beneficial to achieve more bolls, uniform boll bursting and satisfactory yields. Sri. Narsimha Reddy, AGM, Nuzuveedu seeds highlighted that the firm is thriving hard to introduce ideal HDPS hybrids which will be highly suitable for the machine picking in the near future. Dr. O. Shaila, SMS (PP) suggested the farmers not to extend the crop and removing, incorporating crop in to the soil in order to avoid PBM incidence. There was a farmer’s scientist interaction, all the queries were resolved by the Programme coordinator, KVK, Palem. Dr. T. Prabhakar Reddy, Programme coordinator, Dr. O. Shaila, SMS (PP), KVK, Palem, Sri. Narsimha Reddy, AGM, Nuzuveedu seeds & team and 47 farmers a Total of 68 members were participated.