🌽 Maize
Location: Surat, Gujarat
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Gujarat (State) →Reference crop schedule — Maize
Days from sowing| Days from sowing | Stage | Activity | Category | Indicative cost / acre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -15–-8 | Pre-sowing |
Field preparation
Two harrowings and levelling.
|
Land preparation | ₹1,750 |
| -6–-2 | Pre-sowing |
Basal fertilizer + FYM
5 t FYM + 50 kg DAP per acre.
|
Fertilizer | ₹4,100 |
| 0–2 | Sowing |
Sowing
8 kg seed/acre at 60x20 cm.
|
Sowing | ₹3,250 |
| 18–25 | Seedling |
First weeding
Weed free for the first 35 days.
|
Weeding | ₹1,900 |
| 25–32 | Knee high |
First urea top dressing
35 kg urea at knee-high stage.
|
Fertilizer | ₹1,400 |
| 20–45 | Vegetative |
Fall armyworm scouting
Check whorls weekly; spray on ETL.
|
Plant protection | ₹1,600 |
| 45–52 | Tasseling |
Second urea top dressing
35 kg urea before tasseling.
|
Fertilizer | ₹1,400 |
| 48–56 | Tasseling |
Irrigation at tasseling
Most critical irrigation stage.
|
Irrigation | ₹750 |
| 65–75 | Grain filling |
Irrigation at grain filling
Keep soil moist at grain filling.
|
Irrigation | ₹750 |
| 95–105 | Harvest |
Harvesting cobs
Harvest at black layer formation.
|
Harvest | ₹3,500 |
| 100–112 | Post harvest |
Shelling and drying
Dry grain to 12% moisture.
|
Post harvest | ₹1,600 |
| Total | ₹22,000 | |||
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