Pigeonpea

Steps	What to do	What not to do
Field selection	Well drained area Ridge & furrow and raised bed for proper drainage.	Avoiding water logged area. Avoiding repetition in the same plot to minimize wilt incidence. Avoiding ratoon crop or perennial pigeonpea to minimize mite population, in turn SMD incidence. Avoiding planting in shade area as pigeonpea is susceptibility to low light intensity.
Field preparation	Summer Ploughing to reduce wilt incidence.	-
Seed Material	Selection of quality seed. Seed treatment (Rhizobium Trichoderma) and seed priming (Boran, Molybdenum. Zinc), chemical (Thirum, captan. carbendazim)	Avoiding infested, damaged or in matured seed/old seed.
Variety	Recently released high yielding varieties.	Avoiding too old varieties.
Sowing time	Timely sowing	Avoiding too late sowing.
Fertilizer application	Application of organic fertilizer for sustainable agriculture and soil health in addition to inorganic fertilizer	Avoiding use of imbalance fertilizer.
Weeding	Timely weeding and use of effective herbicide
Irrigation	Life saving and judicious application irrigation
Protection measures	Use of Resistant varieties prevailing condition Monitoring of insect pest and disease incidence and proper plant protection measures. Maximum care of cultural operation than chemicals. Monitoring and control of harmful insect population. (Pheromone-traps, Light-trap bird perches and need based application of NSKE5%, HaNPV@ 250 LE, Endosulfan 0.07%, Indoxacarb) other cultural operation.	Avoiding unnecessary and excess use of chemicals to maintain the population of beneficial predators and parasites.