National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) was grown as intercrop in summer rice field followed by its sole cropping, in jute fabric based soil columns to provide better drainage and aeration to the crop at ICAR-CRIJAF research farm in 2013-14. The individual initial planting rhizome (seed) weight varied from 80-100 g each. The crop was grown with a fixed nutrition and pesticide schedule. Healthy individual ginger bushes produced as high as 139 tillers. The maximum approximate radii of ginger clusters and its depth varied from 33-45 cm and 10-16 cm, respectively (Fig. 1). The cluster contained large number of individual small rhizomes in compact masses all connected together. Largest ginger individual cluster, maximum up to 4.5 kg were developed on jute fabrics based soil columns in 9 months. Careful excise in ginger farming adopting this technology will substantially increase farmers’ income. This system will also help the resource poor farmers to meet their own requirements for home scale consumption.
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