Wheat
ਕਣਕ
Punjab's main winter cereal and the backbone of the rabi season.
Quick facts
Sample- Sowing or planting window
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- Crop duration
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- Recommended varieties
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- Average yield
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Practices, step by step
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Learn & Play for this crop
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IPM Snakes and Ladders
A printable board game: good pest-management choices are ladders, risky ones are snakes.
30 minutes - GameSample
Weed Watch card game
Match weed pictures to their names and the right time to act.
20 minutes - SongSample
Song of the soil
A folk-style song about testing and feeding the soil.
3 minutes - SongSample
Every drop counts
A song about saving groundwater in Punjab.
3 minutes - JingleSample
Straw is gold
A 30-second jingle against burning crop residue.
30 seconds - VideoSample
Sowing wheat in lines
A short field video. The YouTube ID is a placeholder until the real video is uploaded.
4 minutes
Training kits for this crop
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Wheat — Weed management
A 90-minute session to help farmers identify wheat weeds and choose the right control at the right time.
90 minutes7 PDF - Sample
Wheat — Insect pests
A field-school style session on scouting, thresholds and natural enemies in wheat.
2 hours7 PDF - Sample
Wheat — Diseases
A session on spotting disease symptoms early and knowing whom to ask.
90 minutes7 PDF