🌿 Coriander Crop – Cultivation Guidelines

🌦 Climate & Soil

• Tropical crop – can be grown year-round for leaves.
• For seed production, dry and cool weather is required.
• Cloudy weather at flowering and fruiting increases pest and disease incidence.
• Heavy rainfall is harmful.
• Can grow in all soils, but black soils that retain moisture are best for rainfed cultivation.

🚜 Field Preparation

• After rains, plough 3–4 times.
• For irrigated crop: plough 2–3 times and prepare beds & channels.

📅 Season

• North/Central India, Andhra Pradesh: Rabi crop → Sowing mid-October to mid-November.
• In hilly areas, sowing is delayed.
  • June–July sowing → Early crop (harvest Aug–Sept).
  • Sept–Oct sowing → Late crop (harvest Jan–Feb), gives higher yield.
• Rainfed crop: Sown Sept–Oct, harvested Jan–Feb.

🌾 Sowing

• Seed rate: 10–15 kg/ha.
• Seeds stored for 15–30 days give better germination.
• Soaking in water for 12–24 hours improves germination.
• Treat seeds with Thiram @ 2 g/kg seed.
• Irrigated crop:
  • Row spacing: 30–40 cm
  • Plant spacing: 15 cm
• Rainfed crop: Broadcast seeds and cover with plough.
• Germination in 10–15 days.

🧪 Fertilizer Management

• Apply FYM @ 10 tons/ha.
• Irrigated crop: 15:40:20 kg/ha NPK as basal + 15 kg N at 30 DAS.
• Rainfed crop: 20:30:20 kg/ha NPK.

💧 Irrigation

• First irrigation: 3 days after sowing.
• Later irrigations at 10–15 days interval depending on soil moisture.

🌿 Intercultural Operations

• First weeding & thinning at 30 DAS (retain 2 plants per hill).
• 1–2 additional weedings if needed.

🌾 Harvesting

• Crop duration: 90–110 days.
• In some varieties, leaves can be harvested at 60–75 DAS for extra income.
• Harvest when fruits turn from green to brown.
• Delayed harvesting causes shattering of seeds.
• After harvest, heap crop for 2–3 days, dry, and thresh.
• Average yield:
  • Rainfed: 400–500 kg/ha
  • Irrigated: 600–1200 kg/ha

🌱 Plant Protection

Insects:

• Semilooper caterpillar → Emamectin Benzoate 1.9 EC or Chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC.
• Aphid (at flowering) → Thiamethoxam 25% WG.

Diseases:

• Powdery mildew → Spray Propineb 70% WP, twice at 10–15 day interval.
• Grain mold → Spray Carbendazim 0.1% at 20 DAS after fruit setting.

⚠️ Note:
This package of practices is based on recommendations of agricultural universities and scientific methods. Crop production depends on climate, soil fertility, irrigation availability, incidence of pests and diseases, and other natural factors. The seed company will not be responsible for losses or low yield caused by such uncontrollable factors.