The rains proceed, the harvest pours, fungal ailments seem – Agro Plovdiv – 2024-05-17 08:00:35

Forecast for the interval Might 17 – 23, 2024.

Dukena Zholeva, agrometeorologist at NIMH

After the unseasonably cool climate in mid-Might, a major improve in temperatures, normalization of thermal circumstances and activation of vegetation processes in agricultural crops are predicted in the course of the subsequent seven-day interval.

The anticipated precipitation on the finish of the second and the start of the third ten-day interval in many of the Polish areas will preserve the soil moisture reserves within the 50 and 100 cm layer inside optimum limits – over 85% of the PPV. Through the interval, the formation and pouring of the grain will happen in well-moistured winter cereals. Within the south-eastern areas (agrostation Karnobat) with barley, sooner than the same old phrases, the milk maturity section can even be noticed.

Corn and sunflowers shall be leafing. On the finish of the interval, the sunflower, sown within the agrotechnical interval, can even observe the start of the formation of an inflorescence.

The forecasted unsustainable climate with frequent rainfall within the subsequent interval can even preserve an elevated infectious background of fungal pathogens: late brown rot on ripening fruits of early cherry varieties, grey rot on strawberries, manna on vines and vegetable crops, scab on seed fruit species, and so forth.

Within the third ten days of Might, mid-early cherry varieties are broken by the cherry fly. To restrict the harm brought on by this pest, therapy with an insecticide with a brief quarantine interval is really useful in the beginning of the fruit ripening section (cherry fruits start to show barely pink).

Surveys for the presence and dangerous exercise of the caterpillars of the primary technology of the noticed grape moth ought to proceed within the vineyards, and the apple, plum and japanese fruitworms in fruit crops.

Through the interval, the elevated moisture content material within the higher soil layers will restrict the implementation of seasonal tillage and the struggle in opposition to competing weed vegetation.