Critical stage for irrigation in wheat __________

🔑 Key Points
🌾 The Critical Stage for Irrigation
→ Certain periods during crop growth and development are most sensitive to soil moisture stress compared to others.
→ These periods are considered moisture-sensitive periods.
→ The term critical period is commonly used to define the stage of growth when plants are most sensitive to a shortage of water.

📝 Additional Information
🌱 Crops Critical Stages
🌾 Rice
→ Critical Stage: Initial tillering, flowering

🌾 Wheat
→ Critical Stage: Crown root initiation, tillering, boot stage, dough stage

🌱 Peas
→ Critical Stage: Pre-bloom stage

🌱 Pulses
→ Critical Stage: Flowering and podding

🌾 Berseem
→ Critical Stage: After each cutting

🌱 Gram
→ Critical Stage: Pre-flowering and flowering

🌱 Pigeonpea
→ Critical Stage: Flower initiation, pod filling

🌾 Sorghum
→ Critical Stage: Initial seedling, pre-flowering, flowering, grain formation

🌾 Barley
→ Critical Stage: Boot stage, dough stage

🌽 Maize
→ Critical Stage: Early vegetative, tasselling, and silking stage