Sygenta comes with cotton soulution protocal
The leading agro-chemical company, Syngenta India has developed a cotton solution protocol as a business model for two medium staple and two extra long staple varieties, Mr R. Subramanian, Senior Technical Manager, Syngenta India (Crop Protection Division) said here on May 08.The crop solution model named as the Syngenta integrated crop management (ICM) project will be used on varieties as Surabhi, MCU-5 (medium staple), Sara-2 and Suvin (extra long staple) and has proposed to extend this year its model crop practices to other extra-long staple varieties, including the DCH-32 and all existing Bt ELS cotton varieties too. The main aim of the solution is to fill the gaps in conventional crop management practices during critical growth stages in cotton, between the 10th day of sowing (crop emergence stage) and the 105th day (when the first boll opening occurrence seen largely in medium/long and extra long staple). Mr R. Subramanian added that the crop protection regimen centers of the company have adopted a mix of ‘right-use’ technology — right seed sourcing, right time pest control and right nutrient management — with a constant crop monitoring system that ensures weekly farm visit by the team to record the crop's progress.
The Syngenta practices advocate need-based pesticide and fertiliser application. It dissuades the ground application of fertiliser on 90-day cotton crop, when its roots would have gone too deep to absorb fertiliser. And instead it suggests folial fertiliser solution application for optimum absorption by the plants thereby minimising the input wastage.
However, the crop monitoring mechanism is aimed at retention of the base bolls that form in the individual branches till harvest (so as to achieve the minimum 80 bolls per plant that could go up to harvest stage) to make the crop high yielding and economically profitably for the growers.
The right use technology besides ensuring enhanced seed cotton productivity has also resulted in reduced input cost, around 30 percent lower compared to the farmers' own practices and at the same the time improved the quality of the fiber.
The right use technology besides ensuring enhanced seed cotton productivity has also resulted in reduced input cost, around 30 percent lower compared to the farmers' own practices and at the same the time improved the quality of the fiber.
