November
South West monsoon areas

• Weeding
• Liming wherever necessary
• Cover digging and light digging
• Regulation of permanent shade
• Swabbing spraying with Lindane 20 EC
• Control measures against hairy caterpillar
• Forking, mulching and hutting young plants in new clearings
• Irrigation with sprinklers, depending on rain( '111 conditions
• lime washing young dadp stems
• Commencement of arabica harvesting and processing
• Removal and burning of shot-hole borer infested twigs
• Spot spraying against coffee berry borer
• Nursery work

North-East monsoon areas

• Regulation of dadap shade
• Post-monsoon spraying with 0.5% Bordeaux mixture against leaf rust.
• Rest as above.

DECEMBER
SOUTH-WEST MONSOON AREAS

• Harvesting and processing of arabica
• Scuffling
• Fire path clearing
• Liming wherever necessary
• Mulching and shade hutting orplants in new cleanings
• Nursery work

North-East arwtsoarr

• Spraying with 0.5% Bordeaux mixture to be completed.
• Rest as above.

JANUARY
SOUTH-WEST MONSOON AREAS

• Harvesting and processing of arabica coffee/Robusta Coffee.
• Collection of gleaning and disinfcstationdisposal of berries infested with bern borer.
• Stripping off-season berries in berry borer-infested areas.
• Pruning and handling of arabica coffee.
• Control measures against rot mealybug.
• Fire path cleaning.
• Preparation of germination beds and sowing. Before sowing, seeds stay he treated with Vitavax 75 WI' at 0.66 gikg of seeds or tiavi,tin 50 WI' at I g..:kg seeds to protect against collar rot.

North-East area.

As above except item 6

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