Mustard Production Manual

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• Home
• Plant Description
  • Types of mustards and their uses
  • Growth stages
  • How to distinguish mustard from canola
• Adaptation, field selection and rotational characteristics
  • Adaptation
  • Field preparation
  • Crop rotation
  • Herbicide residue consideration
• Varieties
  • Varieties Overview
  • Hybrid Mustard
• Production: Seed treatments
• Fertility
  • Soil testing
  • Nitrogen
  • Phosphorus
  • Potassium
  • Sulphur
  • Micronutrients
  • Top dressing and split application
• Seeding
  • Seeding depth
  • Seeding rate
  • Time of seeding
• Pest Control
  • Weed and herbicide options
    • Introduction
    • The role of agronomy in weed management
    • Herbicides for weed control in mustard
    • Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs)
  • Insects
    • Insect scouting
    • Pests of seedlings
    • Pests at flowering and podding stages
  • Diseases
    • Introduction
    • Disease scouting
    • Disease management
    • Fungicides
• Harvest, storage and grading
  • Harvest
    • Swathing vs straight combining
    • Time of swathing
    • Straight combining
    • Desiccation
    • Harvesting
  • Storage
    • Storage insects
  • Grading
    • Green seed
      Heated seed
      Sclerotinia sclerotia
      Ergot
      Excreta
      Rime

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