Growers Advised To Cultivate Lentil From October

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Growers advised to cultivate Lentil from October

FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -16th Sept,2016) : The agriculture experts have advised the growers to start cultivation of Lentil in arid lands from October 1. A spokesman of Agriculture (Extension) Department told here on Friday that the growers should cultivate approved varieties of Lentil for getting bumper yield.

The farmers should also use one bag DAP fertilizer or one bag triple super phosphate and half bag urea fertilizer or three bags single phosphate and half bag urea fertilizer for one acre of Lentil crop. The Lentil can also be sown in September cultivated sugarcane crop because its production was recorded at rate of 12-15 mounds per acre through various experiments, he added.