The sight of purple fields of standing crop laden with aromatic flowers fills the heart of farmers with joy as after months of hardwork, hundreds of farmers in #Bhaderwah have started harvesting of exotic #Lavender crop amid market boom…supported by #CSIR-IIIM, Ministry of Science & Technology. | Dr Jitendra Singh

Moist Soil vs Hot Crops: Last season the middle food plot at L7 was planted in conventional medium grain rice and left standing. Ducks fed heavily in this unit, but activity took a noticeable decline once the rice was gone. In my opinion, we kept the rice way too clean with multiple herbicide applications. This year we elected to draw the water down slowly during the first 45 day growing season and monitor vegetative response. The smart weed absolutely exploded so we decided to convert the rice