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Decision guides for Nagpur orange growers and Vidarbha crops, data stories from our open data, crop and region guides for the rest of India, and plain explanations of the terms we use. Every entry shows when it was last checked.
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- Wardha district: cotton country with a mandarin belt.Wardha district's normal rainfall is 1056.9 mm over 47 to 50 rainy days, rising from north-west to south-east, on black and dark brown soils. · Vidarbha belt · मराठी
- Vidarbha: the Nagpur orange belt, in facts.Vidarbha, in eastern Maharashtra, gets about 700 to 950 mm of rain a year in the west and over 1250 mm in the east, mostly from June to September. · Vidarbha belt · मराठी
- Tur (pigeonpea) in Vidarbha: what to check, and when, from sowing to harvestIn Vidarbha, tur is sown in June: early varieties in the first fortnight, medium and late varieties in the second. · Guide (tur) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Soybean in Vidarbha: what to check, and when, from sowing to harvestSow soybean only after the monsoon sets in and about 100 mm of rain has fallen, says the ICAR soybean institute at Indore. · Guide (soybean) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Nagpur orange fertiliser (santra khat vyavasthapan): what to ask your KVK before you applyHow much fertiliser a Nagpur orange tree needs depends on its age, its bahar and your soil. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Nagpur district: rain, soils and orange orchards.Nagpur district's normal rainfall is 1139.4 mm a year, falling from June to September, on mostly black cotton soils. · Vidarbha belt · मराठी
- Monsoon cloud over one Vidarbha field: one clear view in 20 passesFrom 21 June to 2 September 2026, Sentinel-2 passed over one field near Katol 20 times and saw it clearly once, on 14 July. · Data story
- Katol and Kalmeshwar: two orange talukas west of Nagpur.Katol's normal rainfall is 973 mm and Kalmeshwar's 985.4 mm, on black cotton soils. · Vidarbha belt · मराठी
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- Cotton in Vidarbha: what to check, and when, from sowing to pickingIn Vidarbha, cotton sowing follows the rain, not a date: for Akola, ICAR-CICR advises sowing after 75 to 100 mm of rain. · Guide (cotton) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Chana (chickpea) in Vidarbha: what to check, and when, from sowing to harvestIn Maharashtra, rainfed chana is sown in the first fortnight of October and irrigated chana from the last week of October to the first week of November. · Guide (chana) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Amravati district: Warud, Morshi and the largest mandarin area in Maharashtra.Amravati district holds about 49 per cent of Maharashtra's mandarin orchard area. · Vidarbha belt · मराठी
- A year of Sentinel-2 readings for one Vidarbha fieldEvery pass over one field near Katol as CSV and JSON, free under CC BY 4.0. · Open data
- Nagpur orange season and GI tag: when ambia and mrig bahar fruit reach the marketNagpur orange has two seasons. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Nagpur orange planting (santra lagwad): soil, spacing, pit size, rootstock and planting timePlant Nagpur orange at 6 m by 6 m in 75 cm pits, on well-drained soil at least 1 m deep. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- NDVI full form and meaning: what NDVI is and what it tells you about an orange orchardNDVI stands for Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- How to see a satellite image of your own field for free: Copernicus Browser, NASA Worldview and ISRO BhuvanYou can see your own field from space for free on the Copernicus Browser website. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Ambia bahar orange crop insurance in Maharashtra: what it covers, who can enrol, how to applyAmbia bahar orange insurance in Maharashtra is the Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme under PMFBY. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Why citrus leaves turn yellow: read the pattern, find the cause, then actYellow leaves have more than one cause, and three questions narrow it down. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- What is satellite farming? What a satellite sees in your orchard, and what it cannotA satellite is a camera in the sky. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- What are ambia and mrig bahar? Choosing the right one for your orchardThree tests decide it: how much water you have in summer, which month you want to sell in, and which bahar the trees carried last year. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Weather and irrigation: how the five-day forecast changes the watering scheduleThe weather decides how much water a tree uses: sun, temperature, wind, dry air. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Water stress: the sign on the tree, the sign in the soil, the sign from the satelliteWater stress shows in three places, and the three do not show at the same time. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Nagpur orange season: when to harvest ambia and mrig fruitHarvest timing comes from three things: fruit maturity, the market's prices and arrivals, and the next days' weather. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Nagpur orange bahar management: ambia or mrig, when to stress, when to waterNagpur mandarin should carry one bahar (flowering flush) a year: ambia (flowers in January and February) or mrig (flowers in June and July). · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- How much water does an orange tree need? When to irrigate Nagpur orangeIrrigate citrus by soil moisture, not by the calendar. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Drip irrigation for orange trees: a month-by-month scheduleWith drip you decide two things: how long to run each day and how many days apart. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
- Citrus fruit drop: causes, and what to check firstSome drop after fruit set is natural; the tree sheds what it cannot carry. · Guide (citrus) · मराठी · हिन्दी
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