Due to a strong hailstorm that hit the Tangmarg and Gulmarg in Jammu & Kashmir, the Directorate General of Horticulture of Kashmir has issued a warning for orchardists to protect the harvest of fruit trees from the storm.
According to an advisory, orchardists were asked by Director General Horticulture Kashmir to spray the affected apple and pear trees with either of the following fungicides per 100-litre of water: Zineb 68 % + Hexaconozole 4 % 72 WP (100g) or Dodine 65 WP (60g) or Dodine 40 SC (90 ml) or Fluxapyroxad 250g/l+Pyraclostrobin 250g/l 500 SC (20ml). He also asked to spray 0.2% Urea (equivalent to 200 grams per 100 litres of water) on the hailstorm-affected apple and pear trees and also remove the damaged and fallen leaves and fruitlets immediately from the orchards.
For cherry, apricot, plum and peach trees that got affected by the hailstorm it was advised to use either of the following fungicides: Carbendazim 50 WP(50 g) or Carbendazim 12% +Mancozeb 63 % 75 WP (250g) or Thiophanate Methyl 70 WP(50g).
