Cluster Bean NCB-12 (Nandini)

Cultivation Practices for Clusterbean

Soil…..Medium heavy well-drained fertile soil.
Seed rate/ha…8–10 kg
Spacing (cm)…60 x 15 or 45 x 15
Manures & Fertilizer……Apply 25 tons of well-composted organic manure at the time of land preparation. Apply 25 kg N, 60 kg P, and 60 kg K fertilizer at the time of sowing. An additional 25 kg N should be applied 25 days after sowing.
Irrigation…Depending on atmospheric conditions, two or three protective irrigations should be provided.

Plant Protection

Leaf miner : Dichlorovos @ 1 ml/lit.
Aphids, Jassids : Imidacloprid @ 0.5 ml/lit.
White fly : Difenthuron @ 12.5 gm/15 lit.
Thrips : Thiamethoxam @ 0.66 gm/lit or Fipronil @ 2 ml/lit.
Downy mildew : Mancozeb and Metalaxyl-M @ 2.5 gm/lit or Mancozeb @ 2 gm/lit or Tebuconazole @ 1 gm/lit.
Fusarium wilt : Biosanjivani @ 5+5 gm/lit or Bavistin @ 2 ml/lit.
Powdery mildew : Tebuconazole @ 1 gm/lit.
Alternaria leaf blight : Mancozeb and Metalaxyl-M or DM-45 @ 2.5 ml/lit.

Special Recommendation

• Apply 25 kg Nirmal Bio Power Gold granule per ha at the time of sowing near the root zone.
• Apply Nirmal Rizomica @ 250 gm/ha with organic fertilizer.
• Conduct 3 foliar sprays of Nirmal Bioforce @ 2 ml/lit at pre-flowering, flowering, and fruiting stages.