4 Regions · 12 Months

Plant at the Right Moment.

Month-by-month planting and harvest windows for Rwanda, Kenya, India, and Brazil. Know when disease peaks arrive — before they destroy your crop.

🇷🇼Rwanda 🇰🇪Kenya 🇮🇳India 🇧🇷Brazil

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Rwanda

East Africa

Highland tropics • 1,200–2,000 m elevation • Bimodal rainfall

Two rainy seasons — Season A (Sep–Jan) and Season B (Feb–Jun) — enable year-round cropping at altitude.

Jan

🌱Plant

maize bean

🌾Harvest

potatowheat

📋Tasks

· Weed Season A crops
· Scout for late blight

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Late blight peak — check potato & tomato

Feb

🌱Plant

tomato cabbage

🌾Harvest

beanmaize

📋Tasks

· Harvest Season A
· Prepare Season B beds

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Angular leaf spot on beans

Mar

🌱Plant

potato wheat maize

🌾Harvest

cabbageonion

📋Tasks

· Plant Season B — main planting month
· Apply basal fertilizer

Apr

🌱Plant

bean soybean

📋Tasks

· Top-dress maize
· Scout for fall armyworm

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Fall armyworm risk rises

May

🌱Plant

tomato pepper

🌾Harvest

maizebean

📋Tasks

· Harvest Season B cereals
· Store grain properly

Jun

🌾Harvest

potatosoybeanwheat

📋Tasks

· Harvest root crops
· Dry and store

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Fusarium wilt in drying fields

Jul

🌱Plant

potato maize

🌾Harvest

tomatopepper

📋Tasks

· Short dry-season planting (irrigated)
· Repair terraces

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Powdery mildew in dry season

Aug

🌱Plant

bean cabbage

📋Tasks

· Maintain irrigation
· Side-dress with nitrogen

Sep

🌱Plant

maize bean potato

🌾Harvest

maize

📋Tasks

· Season A begins — main planting
· Apply compost

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Soil-borne diseases — rotate crops

Oct

🌱Plant

tomato onion wheat

🌾Harvest

beansoybean

📋Tasks

· Transplant tomato seedlings
· Scout for bacterial wilt

Nov

🌱Plant

cabbage pepper

🌾Harvest

potatomaize

📋Tasks

· Harvest early Season A crops
· Scout for late blight

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Late blight season begins

Dec

🌾Harvest

tomatocabbagewheat

📋Tasks

· Final Season A harvests
· Cover crops on resting plots

Disease guides →Pest control →Treatments →

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Kenya

East Africa

Tropical highlands & lowlands • Bimodal rainfall (long & short rains)

Long rains (Mar–May) and short rains (Oct–Dec) define two main growing seasons. Highlands suit maize; lowlands favour rice, cassava, and sorghum.

Jan

🌱Plant

sorghum cassava

🌾Harvest

maizebean

📋Tasks

· Harvest short-rain maize
· Dry and store grain

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Maize lethal necrosis — scout lowlands

Feb

🌱Plant

onion tomato

🌾Harvest

sorghumcowpea

📋Tasks

· Land prep for long rains
· Apply lime if needed

Mar

🌱Plant

maize bean groundnut

📋Tasks

· Plant long rains — main season
· Inoculate legume seed

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Early blight on tomatoes begins

Apr

🌱Plant

rice tomato cabbage

📋Tasks

· Top-dress maize nitrogen
· Scout for fall armyworm

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Fall armyworm peak — maize

May

🌱Plant

potato soybean

🌾Harvest

tomatoonion

📋Tasks

· Harvest long-rain vegetables
· Stagger tomato harvest

Jun

🌾Harvest

maizebeangroundnutrice

📋Tasks

· Main harvest — long rains
· Grade and bag grain

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Aflatoxin risk — dry maize fast

Jul

🌱Plant

tomato cabbage onion

🌾Harvest

potatosoybean

📋Tasks

· Mid-year planting (irrigated)
· Mend fences

Aug

🌱Plant

cassava sorghum

🌾Harvest

tomatocabbage

📋Tasks

· Scout for cassava mosaic virus
· Rogue infected plants

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Cassava mosaic peak

Sep

🌱Plant

maize bean

📋Tasks

· Prepare for short rains
· Sow cover crops on fallow

Oct

🌱Plant

potato tomato rice

🌾Harvest

maize

📋Tasks

· Short rains planting
· Transplant tomato seedlings

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Late blight risk rises with rains

Nov

🌱Plant

cabbage onion pepper

🌾Harvest

beanrice

📋Tasks

· Top-dress short-rain crops
· Scout for bacterial diseases

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Bacterial wilt peak — nightshades

Dec

🌾Harvest

maizepotatotomatosorghum

📋Tasks

· Harvest short rains
· Post-harvest treatment

Disease guides →Pest control →Treatments →

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India

South Asia

Tropical & subtropical • Three seasons: Kharif (Jun–Nov), Rabi (Oct–Mar), Zaid (Mar–Jun)

India's three cropping seasons allow year-round production. Monsoon-fed Kharif dominates — rice, maize, cotton. Rabi uses residual moisture — wheat, potato, mustard.

Jan

🌱Plant

potato mustard wheat

🌾Harvest

ricesugarcane

📋Tasks

· Harvest Kharif rice
· Plant Rabi — potato & wheat

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Sheath blight in post-harvest rice stubble

Feb

🌱Plant

tomato onion cabbage

🌾Harvest

potatomustard

📋Tasks

· Late Rabi vegetable harvest
· Scout for late blight on potato

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Potato late blight peak — cool nights

Mar

🌱Plant

groundnut sugarcane tomato

🌾Harvest

wheatonion

📋Tasks

· Zaid season starts — plant summer crops
· Harvest Rabi wheat

Apr

🌱Plant

rice maize cotton

🌾Harvest

sugarcanetomato

📋Tasks

· Pre-kharif land preparation
· Apply FYM / compost

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Powdery mildew on cucurbits

May

🌱Plant

soybean groundnut

🌾Harvest

maizeonion

📋Tasks

· Sow Kharif early varieties
· Pre-monsoon irrigation

Jun

🌱Plant

rice maize sorghum cotton

🌾Harvest

wheatsugarcane

📋Tasks

· Kharif sowing begins with monsoon
· Puddling rice fields

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Rice blast — monitor seedlings

Jul

🌱Plant

soybean bean pepper

📋Tasks

· Top-dress Kharif crops
· Scout for stem borer in rice

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Rice stem borer peak

Aug

🌱Plant

tomato cabbage

📋Tasks

· Weed Kharif fields
· Apply potash to rice at tillering

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Brown planthopper in rice

Sep

🌱Plant

potato onion

🌾Harvest

soybeangroundnut

📋Tasks

· Harvest early Kharif
· Plant Rabi begins — potato seedbed

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Late blight risk as temperatures drop

Oct

🌱Plant

wheat mustard potato

🌾Harvest

ricemaizecottonsorghum

📋Tasks

· Main Kharif harvest
· Rabi sowing starts

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Aflatoxin risk — groundnut harvest

Nov

🌱Plant

tomato cabbage onion

🌾Harvest

ricesoybean

📋Tasks

· Complete Rabi planting
· Irrigate wheat at crown root stage

Dec

🌱Plant

sugarcane

🌾Harvest

potatomustardonion

📋Tasks

· Harvest early Rabi crops
· Apply Rabi top-dressing

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Bacterial leaf blight in late rice

Disease guides →Pest control →Treatments →

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Brazil

South America

Tropical & subtropical • Main season (Sep–Feb) + Second season 'Safrinha' (Jan–May)

Brazil's Cerrado and southern states use a relay cropping system: soybean main season (Sep–Feb) followed immediately by maize Safrinha planted into soybean stubble.

Jan

🌱Plant

maize bean cassava

🌾Harvest

soybeancotton

📋Tasks

· Safrinha maize planting window closes
· Harvest early soybean

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Asian soybean rust — peak risk Jan–Mar

Feb

🌾Harvest

soybeanmaizegroundnut

📋Tasks

· Main soybean harvest
· Sample grain moisture before storage

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Soybean rust continues

Mar

🌱Plant

cotton potato

🌾Harvest

maizebeanrice

📋Tasks

· Safrinha maize harvest begins
· Scout for gray leaf spot

Apr

🌱Plant

sugarcane tomato

🌾Harvest

maizecassavacotton

📋Tasks

· Harvest Safrinha maize
· Apply desiccant on bean

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Gray leaf spot in Safrinha maize

May

🌾Harvest

maizetomatopotato

📋Tasks

· Complete winter harvests
· Soil analysis before planting season

Jun

🌾Harvest

sugarcanecassava

📋Tasks

· Off-season — soil correction
· Subsoiling compacted areas

Jul

🌱Plant

wheat oat

🌾Harvest

sugarcane

📋Tasks

· Winter cereals in south Brazil
· Scout for wheat blast

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Wheat blast risk in humid south

Aug

🌱Plant

sugarcane

🌾Harvest

wheatoat

📋Tasks

· Harvest winter cereals
· Prepare seedbeds for main season

Sep

🌱Plant

soybean maize cotton

🌾Harvest

cassava

📋Tasks

· Main season planting window opens
· Treat seed with fungicide + insecticide

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Soybean cyst nematode — rotate fields

Oct

🌱Plant

tomato bean groundnut rice

📋Tasks

· Continue main season sowing
· Apply inoculant to soybean

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Stink bug pressure peaks Oct–Dec

Nov

🌱Plant

potato onion cabbage

🌾Harvest

beanrice

📋Tasks

· Top-dress corn nitrogen
· Scout for soybean rust

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Asian soybean rust first detections

Dec

🌱Plant

maize sorghum

🌾Harvest

tomatoearly soybean

📋Tasks

· Harvest summer vegetables
· Sample rust severity weekly

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Soybean rust escalating

Disease guides →Pest control →Treatments →

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