Director Central Cotton Research Institute (CCRI) Multan,Sabahat Hussain on Monday,advised cotton growers not to let stagnant water remain in their fields for more than 24 hours following recent rains.

MULTAN,Jul 13 (APP): Director Central Cotton Research Institute (CCRI) Multan, Sabahat Hussain on Monday, advised cotton growers not to let stagnant water remain in their fields for more than 24 hours following recent rains.

According to the spokesperon, CCRI Sabahat said that prolonged water logging deprived plant roots of oxygen and essential nutrients, causing wilting and risking crop death and stressed the need for timely drainage of stagnant water to avoid losses.

Sabahat Hussain directed growers to apply half a bag of urea per acre through irrigation or spray a one percent urea solution on the leaves,if cotton foliage turned yellow after rains.

She also urged farmers to focus on timely weed control, carrying out earthing-up once the soil dried to a workable moisture level and removing any remaining weeds by hand, cause weeds could reduce yields by 25 to 30 percent if left unchecked.