Crop

Important moisture sensitive stages

Rice

Panicle initiation, flowering

Wheat

Crown-root initiation(CRI),jointing, milking

Sorghum

Seedling, flowering

Maize

Silking, tasseling

Per millet

Flowering, panicle initiation

Finger millet

Flowering, panicle initiation

Groundnut

Rapid flowering, pegging, early pod formation

Redgram

Flowering and pod formation

Greengram

Flowering and pod formation

Blackgram

Flowering and pod formation

Sugarcane

Formative stage

Soybean

Blooming and seed formation

Cotton

Flowering and boll development

Tobacco

Transplanting to full bloom

Chillies

Flowering

Potato

Tuber initiation to tuber maturity

Onion

Bulb formation to maturity

Tomato

From the commencement of fruit set

Peas

Flowering and pod development

Cabbage

Head formation until becoming firm

Carrot

Root enlargement