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.