Agromet Advisories isuued by India Meteorological Department vide press release number 4216 dated 13 August 2025. Krishi Mausam Salah.
Telangana
Northern Telangana Zone
- Drain excess water from fields of rice, cotton, maize, soybean, pigeon pea, turmeric, and vegetables.
Southern Telangana Zone
- Drain excess water from fields of rice, cotton, soybean, vegetables, and vegetable nurseries.
Andhra Pradesh
Krishna Godavari Zone
- Provide adequate drainage in fields of rice, maize, groundnut, cotton, black gram, green gram, pigeon pea, and sesame.
Scarce Rainfall Zone
- Ensure proper drainage in fields of cotton, rice, pigeon pea, groundnut, castor, maize, and vegetables.
Sub-Himalayan West Bengal
Terai Zone
- Drain excess water from rice, chilli, and gourds fields.
- Cover chilli seedlings with plastic to protect from heavy rains.
Bihar
North West Alluvial Plain Zone
- Drain excess water from fields of maize, vegetables, and other standing crops.
North East Alluvial Zone
- Maintain proper drainage in maize fields.
- Prevent rainwater accumulation in fields of vegetables, ragi, kodo, sava, china, etc.
- Build scaffolding for creeper vegetables.
Odisha
Eastern Ghat High Land Zone and South Eastern Ghat Zone
- Ensure proper drainage in fields of rice (especially lowland and medium land), maize, and vegetables to avoid water stagnation.
Jammu and Kashmir
Sub Tropical Zone
- Prevent water stagnation in fields of maize, pulses, cowpea, bajra, fodder crops, and vegetables.
Intermediate Zone
- Maintain proper drainage in maize, pulses, and vegetable fields to avoid waterlogging.
Valley Temperate Zone
- Provide proper staking to bottle gourd, cucumber, bitter gourd vines, and indeterminate tomatoes.
- Create drainage channels in maize fields for excess rainwater removal.
Himachal Pradesh
Mid Hills Sub Humid Zone
- Maintain drainage channels in ginger, turmeric, and maize fields.
- Harvest matured tomato, capsicum, and brinjal fruits.
Sub Montane and Low Hills Sub Tropical Zone
- Maintain drainage channels in rice, maize, and vegetable fields.
High Hills Sub Temperate Wet Zone
- Harvest ripened tomatoes.
Uttarakhand
Bhabar and Tarai Zone
- Maintain 5-7 cm water level in rice fields by removing excess water.
- Ensure proper drainage in sugarcane, maize, green gram, and black gram fields.
Hill Zone
- Keep rice field bunds clean by removing weeds.
- Maintain drainage in soybean, maize, pulses, finger millet, ginger, vegetable fields, and fruit orchards.
Sub Humid Sub Tropic Zone
- Ensure drainage in fields of barnyard millet, finger millet, green gram, and black gram.
Uttar Pradesh
Bundelkhand Zone
- Arrange drainage for excess water from pigeon pea, chilli, and onion fields.
Western Plain Zone
- Postpone sowing of pigeon pea, maize, green gram, and black gram until heavy rains cease.
- Ensure drainage in all pulses, vegetables, and other crops.
- Build scaffolding for bottle gourd vegetables.
Madhya Pradesh
Vindhyan Plateau Zone
- Provide drainage in maize, soybean, black gram, cotton, and pigeon pea fields.
Satpura Plateau Zone
- Ensure drainage in maize, soybean, cotton, sugarcane, and vegetable fields.
Central Narmada Valley Zone
- Maintain drainage in rice, soybean, maize, sugarcane, and vegetable fields.
Nimar Valley Zone
- Provide drainage in soybean, pigeon pea, cotton, and vegetable fields.
Chhattisgarh
Bastar Plateau Zone
- Drain excess water from kharif maize, rice, minor millets, pulses, and vegetable fields.
Plain Zone
- Drain excess water from rice, soybean, pigeon pea, green gram, black gram, groundnut, maize, sugarcane, and vegetable fields.
Assam
Lower Brahmaputra Valley Zone
- Harvest matured vegetables and avoid sowing sesame, green gram, and pigeon pea during heavy rainfall.
- Ensure drainage in Sali rice, green gram, pigeon pea fields, and banana orchards to prevent waterlogging.
North Bank Plain Zone
- Ensure drainage in Sali rice and sugarcane fields.
Upper Brahmaputra Valley Zone
- Ensure drainage in Sali rice fields.
Meghalaya
- Avoid sowing French beans during heavy rains.
- Ensure drainage in rice, maize, turmeric, ginger, pumpkin, chilli, cowpea, okra, and bitter gourd fields to prevent waterlogging.
- Provide staking/support to tall and fragile crops like banana, papaya, and bottle gourd to prevent lodging.
Arunachal Pradesh
- Ensure drainage in rice, maize, finger millet, soybean, vegetable fields, and fruit orchards to avoid waterlogging.
- Provide strong support to fruit-bearing plants to prevent bending or breaking during heavy rains.
Livestock and Fishery
- Keep animals inside sheds during heavy rainfall and provide balanced feed.
- Store feed and fodder in a safe place to prevent spoilage.
- Construct an outlet with proper netting around ponds to drain excess water and prevent fish from escaping.