{"id":450,"date":"2015-11-18T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T06:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2016-02-23T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:48:00","slug":"green-gram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/crop-compendium\/green-gram\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Gram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-tabs\">\n<h2 class=\"tabtitle\">Green Gram<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tabcontent\">\n\n<p><strong>Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>The greengram, also called mung, moong and mungbean in India<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-686 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/infobase\/uploads\/2016\/02\/green_gram.png\" alt=\"green_gram\" width=\"67\" height=\"67\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soil and Climate:\u00a0<\/strong>Generally deep, well drained loam or sandy loam soils are very much suitable for cultivation of mungbean. It is a short day, warm season crop, grown mainly in semiarid to subhumid tropics with 600 to 1000 mm annual rainfall, 20 to 30 degree\u00c2 C mean temperature during the period of crop production and elevations not exceeding 1800 to 2000 m.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><h2 class=\"tabtitle\">Weeds Control<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tabcontent\">\n\n<p><strong>Weed Control:\u00a0<\/strong>Initially, high frequency of rain causes more weed competition which is required to be minimized. In order to get maximum output, 1-2 early weeding is desirable. Afterwards, as crop takes maximum vegetative coverage area not much weeding is needed.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><h2 class=\"tabtitle\">Crop Protection<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tabcontent\">\n\n<p><strong>Crop Protection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Pests:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thrips and Aphids:<\/strong> Suck the sap from the leaves and branches, thereby plants become weak. Spray with Dimethoate 30EC @ 1.7 ml or Imidacloprid 17.8 SL @ 0.2 ml\/ltr. of water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stem fly:<\/strong> The maggot enters the tender stem and scrapes inside and the plants dry up. Spray the crop with Thiomethoxam 25WG @ 0.3g\/ltr. of water at 10 and 20 days after sowing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pod borer:<\/strong> It infests the pod and eats the tender seed inside the pod. Spray the crop with Chlorpyriphos 20 EC @ 2ml \/ ltr. of water.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Diseases:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Root rot and leaf blight:<\/strong> The root will dry up in case of root rot, due to leaf blight there will be patches on the leaf. Treat the seeds with Carbendazim @ 2g or Trichoderma @ 4g per kg seed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Powdery mildew:<\/strong> There will be white mycelial growth on the lower leaves in the early stage of crop growth. Spray the crop with 1 ml Hexaconazole 5 EC \/ ltr. of water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cercospora leaf spot:<\/strong> There will be brownish patches on the leaves. Spray the crop with Carbendazim 50 WP @1g \/ ltr. of water.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction:\u00a0The greengram, also called mung, moong and mungbean in India Soil and Climate:\u00a0Generally deep, well drained loam or sandy loam soils are very much suitable for cultivation of mungbean. It is a short day, warm season crop, grown mainly in semiarid to subhumid tropics with 600 to 1000 mm annual rainfall, 20 to 30 degree\u00c2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/450\/revisions\/1222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}