Critical Stages for Irrigation

Crops		Critical Stages
Rice	:	Initial tillering, flowering
Wheat	:	Most critical stage: Crown root initiation, tillering, jointing,. booting, flowering, milk and dough stages
Wheat	:	Boot stage; dough stage
Pulses	:	Flowering and podding.
Peas	:	Pre bloom stage.
Berseem	:	After each cutting.
Gram	:	Pre flowering and flowering.
Pigeonpea	:	Flower initiation, pod filling.
Sorghum	:	Initial seedling, pre flowering, flowering, grain formation.
Barley	:	Boot stage, dough stage
Maize	:	Early vegetative, taselling and silking stage.