Under the influence of Western Disturbance, scattered to fairly widespread rain/thundershowers likely over Western Himalayan region and isolated to scattered over plains of Northwest India during next 2 days. Lightning, hail & gusty wind at isolated places over Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand. Isolated thunderstorm accompanied with hail, gusty winds & lightning is also likely over these regions during the same period. In Uttarakhand, undertake nursery preparation for sowing of rice. Carry out weeding and hoeing operation in tomato. Carry out staking of tomato saplings by ropes or branches. Continue sowing of ginger and turmeric. Lightning, hail & gusty winds at isolated places over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi. Lightning & gusty winds at isolated places over West Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, West Bengal, East Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Jharkhand and Odisha. In villages near Delhi, maintain social distancing during harvesting and other agricultural operation in all crops. Apply light irrigation as per requirement in all vegetable and standing crops during morning hours or evening hours. Undertake sowing of green gram, cluster bean, senai, gwar etc during this week. Keeping in view the high temperature, harvest mature vegetables at morning and evening hours and keep harvested crops in shadow. Undertake field preparation for sowing of pigeon pea and cotton. Monitor lady finger crop against attack of mite; if population is high, spray Ethion @ 1.5-2 ml/litre of water when sky is clear. In West UP, to protect the sugarcane crop from borer and termites, sprinkle 5 litres of Chloropyrifus 20 EC medicine in 1250 litres of water. There is a possibility of outbreak of leaf-eating insect in okra / cowpea crops; spray imidacloprid 17.8% SL 1.5 litres / hectare @ 600-700 litres of water when sky is clear. In MP, Apply irrigation to summer green gram and black gram crops at 7-10 days interval.To control of fruit drop in mango, spray Planofix @ 5 ml per pump. In East UP, Continue sowing of green gram, maize and lobia. Apply irrigation and carry out intercultural operations in bottle gourd and bitter gourd as per requirement and for control Red beetle, fruit fry, spray Imidachloropid @ 1 ml/litre of water. In Punjab, in Western Plain Zone of Punjab, complete the sowing of desi cotton in the first fortnight of this month. Due to prevailing hot weather conditions, apply irrigation at 8 to 10 days interval in sugarcane. In Bihar, Carry out land preparation for ginger and turmeric; apply 25-30 tonnes of cow dung per hectare land; start sowing from 15th May. Carry out weeding and apply irrigation to summer vegetables. Carry out weeding in late sown green gram and black gram crops. In Jharkhand, Continue sowing of ginger and elephant foot yam. Provide support to cucurbitaceous vegetables for vigorous growth and also for preventing leaves from coming in contact with soil. Keep 5 cm water level in summer paddy field during PI to flowering stage. Duststorm/thunderstorm accompanied with gusty winds very likely at isolated places over Rajasthan. Gujarat to remain dry. Fairly widespread rainfall over Kerala and scattered rainfall over Karnataka. Isolated rainfall over Telangana and Coastal Andhra Pradesh. Fairly wide spread rainfall over Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Assam. In Hyper arid Partial irrigated zone in Rajasthan, for sowing of cotton, use varieties of R S - 2013, R S - 810, R S T - 9, R S - 875, Bikaneri Narma and Maru Vikas (4 kg seed per ha) of American cotton and RG-8, RG-18, RDH-9, HD-23, RG-542 of desi cotton with 12kg seed per ha. For livestock, vaccinate cattle against FMD and HS diseases, goats against PPR disease and poultry against Ranikhet disease. Keep animals in shade and provide them clean drinking water mixed with 50-60 g salt. Hang wet jute bags in and around animal and poultry sheds to maintain room temperature.