Kern 969 F1 Black Mustard

Kern 969 is an F1 hybrid black mustard for the Rabi season — a tall, well-branched plant with long, thick pods filled from bottom to top with bold, shiny black seed.

Sowing window

• Season: Rabi
• Ideal dates: October — 10–25 October in Haryana, Rajasthan and West UP (ICAR-DRMR), finishing by 20 October where you can (CCS HAU Hisar). As a 100–110-day hybrid it also fits paddy or cotton fields that vacate late; PAU allows mustard sowing from mid-October to mid-November in Punjab
• Weather check: sow when the day temperature has dropped to about 30–32°C and no rain is expected for 5–6 days
• Soil: well-drained light to medium loams, including the lighter soils of the Rajasthan–Haryana belt; avoid waterlogged patches

How to sow

• Seed rate: about 1 kg per acre — one pack sows one acre (HAU: 1 kg per acre for irrigated, timely sown mustard; 1.25 kg under rainfed conditions)
• Spacing: 30–45 cm between rows (HAU: 45 cm; PAU: 30 cm) — the wider row suits this tall, branching plant; seed 4–5 cm deep in moist soil after a pre-sowing irrigation (rauni)
• Thinning: 2–3 weeks after sowing, leave one plant every 10–15 cm in the row
• Seed treatment: if the seed is not already treated, HAU advises a dry dressing of carbendazim 2 g per kg of seed against stem rot
• Pack size: 1 kg

Manure and fertiliser (per acre)

Standard mustard inputs are enough — it does not need heavy fertiliser.

• Irrigated fields: about 32–40 kg N, 12–16 kg P₂O₅ and 16 kg sulphur per acre; potash (6–16 kg K₂O) only where the soil test is low. In fertiliser terms: 75 kg single superphosphate + 35 kg urea at sowing, another 35 kg urea with the first irrigation (HAU / PAU)
• Limited-irrigation or rainfed fields: about 15–16 kg N and 8 kg P₂O₅ per acre (33 kg urea + 50 kg SSP), all drilled at sowing (PAU rainfed / HAU dryland)
• If you use DAP instead of SSP: add 80–100 kg gypsum per acre before sowing for sulphur
• Zinc: 10 kg zinc sulphate (21%) per acre before the last ploughing in zinc-deficient soils

Water, weeds and pests

• Irrigation: suited to limited irrigation as well as irrigated fields. Sow after a heavy rauni; the first irrigation 3–4 weeks after sowing (before flowering) is the one not to miss; give a second at pod (siliqua) formation where water allows
• Stem rot caution: avoid irrigating between 25 December and 15 January — cold, wet soil in this window favours Sclerotinia stem rot (PAU / ICAR-DRMR)
• Weeds: one or two hoeings with a wheel hand hoe, the first 3–4 weeks after sowing; or pendimethalin 38.7 CS at 350 mL per acre in 200 litres of water within two days of sowing (PAU)
• Painted bug: on the germinating crop in October — timely sowing and the first irrigation at 3–4 weeks keep it down
• Aphid (chepa): scout from the first week of January, twice a week. Spray only at threshold — 50–60 aphids per 10 cm of the top shoot — and in the afternoon, when bees are less active; PAU recommends thiamethoxam 25 WG at 40 g per acre in 80–125 litres of water
• White rust / Alternaria: destroy old crop debris; for white rust PAU recommends metalaxyl + mancozeb at 250 g per acre in 100 litres of water at 60 and 80 days after sowing, if needed

Harvest

• Maturity: 100–110 days from sowing (95–105 days from germination)
• Stage: cut when about 75% of the pods have turned yellow; stack for 7–10 days, then thresh
• Pods: long and thick, with good tolerance to shattering at maturity
• Seed: bold, shiny black

अक्सर पूछे जाने वाले सवाल

कण 969 सरसों की बुवाई कब करें?

अक्टूबर में — 10–25 अक्टूबर सबसे सही; देर से खाली होने वाले खेत में नवंबर मध्य तक।

एक एकड़ में कितना बीज लगेगा?

लगभग 1 किग्रा प्रति एकड़ — 1 पैक से 1 एकड़।

क्या यह कम सिंचाई वाले खेत में चलेगी?

हाँ, कम सिंचाई वाले खेतों के लिए भी उपयुक्त है। 3–4 हफ़्ते पर पहली सिंचाई ज़रूरी है।

बारानी खेत में कितनी खाद डालें?

बारानी या कम सिंचाई में लगभग N 15–16 और P 8 किग्रा प्रति एकड़ (33 किग्रा यूरिया + 50 किग्रा SSP), सब बुवाई पर।

फसल कितने दिन में पकती है?

बुवाई से 100–110 दिन में; 75% फलियाँ पीली होने पर काटें।

Please quote product code KERN-969 when ordering.

Crop practices follow state agricultural university recommendations for North India; confirm doses for your district with your Kern dealer or KVK.

Agronomy helpline: 9107062062

किसानों की ज़ुबानी

कण 969 हाइब्रिड सरसों — किसान राजाराम, बीकानेर