Fasgain Haadu Berseem

Fasgain (Kern 200) is a winter berseem supplied as clean, Cuscuta-free seed, for dairy farmers who want green fodder from December through to June from one sowing.

Sowing window

• Punjab (Majha, Doaba, Malwa): 25 September – 10 October · late cutoff 25 October
• Haryana (Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Sonipat): 28 September – 12 October · late cutoff 28 October
• South Haryana (Hisar, Bhiwani, Jind): 1 – 15 October · late cutoff 30 October
• Western UP (Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bijnor): 1 – 15 October · late cutoff 30 October
• Jammu plains (Kathua, Samba, R.S. Pura): 5 – 20 October · late cutoff 5 November
• Rule of thumb: sowing date is the biggest decision in this crop. November sowing usually costs two cuts. If you are waiting on the paddy harvest, sow within a week of clearing the field — each week of delay costs about one cutting

How to sow

• Field prep: 3–4 ploughings and 1–2 plankings for a fine, level seedbed. Berseem fails on uneven beds because water does not sit evenly
• Method: wet-bed broadcast. Flood the levelled field to 4–5 cm standing water and broadcast the seed into it. Do not broadcast on dry soil and then irrigate — the seed gets buried too deep and germination can fall to around 40%
• Seed rate: 8–10 kg per acre of clean seed
• Rhizobium (first time only): if berseem has never been grown in that field, mix one packet of Rhizobium culture in about 200 ml of 10% jaggery solution, coat the seed and dry it in shade for 30 minutes. Once a field has grown berseem, the soil keeps the bacteria for three to four seasons
• Check any seed yourself: soak it in 10% salt water for 5–10 minutes. Kasni and broken seed float and can be skimmed off; sound berseem sinks
• Mixing: common practice is to add sarson at 500–750 g per acre for early bulk, or ryegrass at 1–1.5 kg per acre, or oats broadcast separately at 15–20 kg per acre
• Pack size: 1 kg

Manure and fertiliser (per acre)

• FYM: 4–6 trolleys, ploughed in 15–20 days before sowing
• Basal: DAP 50 kg (or SSP 150 kg where the soil is short of sulphur, common in Punjab Malwa), MOP 16 kg, urea 18 kg. Only this much nitrogen — once the roots nodulate, the crop fixes its own
• After every cut: top-dress 10 kg urea

Water, weeds and pests

• First irrigation: at day 18–25, light rather than flooded. Give no water for the first 6–7 days after sowing
• After every cut: irrigate within 24 hours. Skipping this, or the urea top-dress, cuts the next harvest by 20–30%
• Amarbel (Cuscuta, akashbel): the biggest seed-quality risk in berseem; it shows on the stems around day 25–35 when seed was unclean. Kern 200 is supplied Cuscuta-free — confirm the current lot's certificate with your dealer

Where it will not do well

Berseem does poorly on saline patches — where ECe is above 4 dS/m, the crop falls by 30–40%. Test the patch before committing a large area. Uneven, badly levelled fields also give patchy stands.

Harvest

• Cutting schedule: cut 1 at 50–60 days, cut 2 at 80–90, cut 3 at 110–125, cut 4 at 145–160, cut 5 at 180–200 and cut 6 at 215–240 days. How many cuts you actually take depends on sowing date, water and the post-cut routine
• Stubble height: leave 6–8 cm. Cutting closer weakens regrowth
• After the last cut: ploughing the crop in as green manure adds roughly 32–40 kg of nitrogen per acre for the paddy or maize that follows. Home-saved seed drops in quality after the first year, and the Cuscuta risk rises with each cycle

अक्सर पूछे जाने वाले सवाल

फासगेन बरसीम की बुवाई कब करें?

क्षेत्र के अनुसार 25 सितंबर से 20 अक्टूबर तक। नवंबर में देर से बुवाई न करें — इससे आमतौर पर दो कटाई कम हो जाती हैं।

एक एकड़ में कितना बीज लगेगा?

8–10 किग्रा प्रति एकड़; पैक 1 किग्रा का है।

बुवाई का सही तरीका क्या है?

समतल खेत में 4–5 सेमी पानी भरकर खड़े पानी में बीज छिट्टा करें। सूखी मिट्टी में छिट्टा करके बाद में पानी न दें।

पहली कटाई कब होगी और कुल कितनी कटाई मिलेंगी?

पहली कटाई 50–60 दिन पर, फिर लगभग हर 30–35 दिन; 6 कटाई तक। 6–8 सेमी ठूंठ छोड़ें।

हर कटाई के बाद क्या करें?

24 घंटे के अंदर सिंचाई करें और 10 किग्रा यूरिया प्रति एकड़ डालें।

Please quote product code KERN-200 when ordering.

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