The following precautions can be taken to minimize aflatoxin contamination: growing tolerant varieties, applying Trichoderma viride @ 1 kg (mixed with 50 kg FYM )ha to the soil at the time of sowing and gypsum at peak flowering, light of frequent irrigation ( if available) during pod and seed development stages, avoiding mechanical damage to pods during weeding, harvesting, curing, treshing, and storage, control of soil insects, harvesting at optimum maturity (in case of severe drought, the crop should be harvesting early), drying the pods to <8% moisture content, removal of immature, discolored and damaged pods from the produce, not mixing the gleanings ( leftover pods collected from the soil) with main produce and protection from storage insect pests. Immature pods should be removed from the haulms before feeding them to livestock.
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