Low Cost Technologies
Making
farmers to adopt cost-saving technologies and attempted to increase farm
productivity and efficiency
- Utilizing Upadi Hami (MGNREGS) work force for agriculture
- Avoid or reduce chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
- Produce own seeds or utilize subsidized seeds from government.
- Crop selection based on weather, soil health, water availability, market facility and history of crop yielding.
- Group farming with grouping of 4 to 5 farmers in a village to do combined farming.
- Utilizing advanced farm equipment to reduce time and labour in farming..
- Spreading the crop duration throughout the year for better price.
- Application of fertilizers in split doses and through micro irrigation systems to avoid leaching losses.
- Use of bio waste in place of chemical fertilizers.
- Growing cover crops/ nectariferous plants all around the farm to attract natural enemies of crop pests to stay and feed on the pests of main crop.
- Following the crop rotation practices to avoid pest outbreaks
- Minimize the water usage and improve the water use efficiency
- Go for market demand crops rather than traditional ones.
- Mixed cropping patterns should be followed so as to get more money from unit area.
Greenhouse
Vegetable Production
For better crop production
practices for both greenhouse and field tomatoes are to be established and
promoted.
Value-Added Market for Greenhouse
Tomatoes :
Greenhouse production will change
the shape of the vegetable market
Greenhouse tomato production allows
farmers to grow fresh tomatoes in structures, sometimes using methods of
climate control and alternative soils. Advantages of greenhouse production
include uniform appearance and quality, consistency in production, increased
yields per acre and enhanced grower capability to sustain year-round
production.
Seed breeders of both greenhouse
and field tomatoes must identify relatively large (>100g) tomato cultivars
with superior flavor.
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