FAISALABAD: The agriculture experts advised the growers to start cultivation of lentil in the first week of October and complete it up to mid of November to get bumper yield.
A spokesman of the Agriculture (Extension) department said here on Tuesday that the growers should cultivate approved varieties of Lentil including Masoor-93, NIAB Masoor-2002, NIAB Masoor-2006, Punjab Masoor-2009, Chakwal Masoor and Markaz-2009, etc.
The farmers should use one bag DAP fertilizer or on bag triple super phosphate and half bag urea fertilizer or three bags single phosphate and half bag urea fertilizer for one acre of lentil crop, he added.