MODERN SUSTAINABLE FARMING METHODS

VEGETABLE PROJECT
 Modern sustainable farming methods – blend of organic and modern
precision farming methods
PROJECT LOCATION MAP
PROJECT SIZE
 Vegetable cultivation on intensive scale in 5
acres
 Annual hybrid drumstick in over 5 acres
 Pigeon pea + field bean in over 5 acres
 Straw berry in over 2 acres
SOIL AMENDMENTS
Mixing together
 Cured pressmud – 10 MT per acre or
 FYM 10 MT per acre
 Mixed with 250 kgs of Super phosphate +
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50 kgs of Urea
100 kgs of Neem cake + 100 kgs of
groundnut cake
Azospirillum and Phosphobacteria each 2
kgs
Metarhizium 8 kgs
Pseudomonas 1 kg
VAM 50 kgs
50 kg gypsum
10 kg of Pottasium humate
SEEDLING TREATMENT
1. 5% Pseudomonas florescence root dip
2. 500 grams Azosprillum in 40 litre water and
dip root for 20 minutes
TRAP CROP
1. Marigold
2. Mustard
3. Castor
4. Vitex nedungo
5. Sorghum
PEST & DISEASE MANAGEMENT
1. Light trap 5 numbers – 7.00PM to 10.00 PM
2. Yellow sticky trap – 10 numbers
3. Sex pheromone trap 5 numbers
4. Fish meal trap
5. Poison bait -1.25 kg carbaryl + 12.5 kg rice brawn
+1.25 kg jaggery water 7.5 litre
PLANT BASED PESTICIDE PRODUCT
1. Neem seed kernal extract 5% solution
2. Neem cake extract 5 % solution
3. Vitex plus acorus calamus powder spray
4. Garlic+green chillies + asofoetida extract 10
% for sucking pest control
BIO PESTICIDE
1. Bacillus thurigiensis spray @ 2
g /litre water
2. Pseudomonas florescense
spray 0.5% disease control
3. NPV virus spray along with
teepol 0.5 ml/ lit water and
APSA wetting agent @0.5 ml
/ lit and jaggery @ 20 g/lit
water ( phagostimulant )
FOLIAR SPRAY
1. Panchagavya 3% solution
2. Sea weed extract 3 % solution
3. Cow urine 3 % solution
4. Humic acid 0.2 % spray
MICRO NUTRIENT
 10 kgs of micro nutrient mixture per acre
mixed in 50 kgs of farm yard manure
MULCHING
 Coir waste is used as mulch for controlling
weeds as well as conserving water
PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR
Triacontanol to increase
flowering and productivity
WATER SOLUBLE FERTILIZERS
1.
19:19:19 +MN
2.
13:00:45
3.
12:61:00
4.
17:44:00
5.
00:52:34
6.
00:00:50
7.
Used for drips as well as sprinkler irrigation
SCHEDULED OPERATIONS AT SITE
SHADE NET HOUSE FOR HI TECH NURSERY
PROGRAM
Nursery area - 200 Square meters
50% shade net to be used and side covered with
40/50 mesh insect proof nylon net
Raised bed of 1 meter width and convenient
length formed and HDPV pipes placed at 2
meter interval for protection against rain with
polythene sheets
Protray of 98 cells ( 54 *27 cms ) of 3.5 cm dia and
0.8 mm thickness
250 protray needs to be purchased
Growing medium – cocopeat @ 300 kgs + Neem
cake 5 kgs + Azopsirillum and
Phosphobacteria each 1 kg
Seed treatment – Azospirillum @ 200 grams/ kg of
seed and shade dried for ½ hour
SOWING IN PROTRAY
Growing medium – cocopeat @ 300 kgs + Neem
cake 5 kgs + Azopsirillum and
Phosphobacteria each 1 kg
Seed treatment – Azospirillum @ 200 grams/ kg
of seed and shade dried for ½ hour
Sowing seeds one per cell , covered with cocopeat
, kept one above other and covered with
polythene sheet till germination
After 6 days , germinated protray is placed over
the raised beds
Panchagavya spray @ 3% ( 30 ml/lit ) on 15 th day
19:19:19+Mn @ 0.5% ( 5 g/lit ) sprayed on 18 th
day using rose can
MAIN FIELD PREPARATION
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Level the field
Excavate 4 feet wide
and 2 feet deep trenches
along the slope
10 MT FYM + 10 bags
Super phosphate + 100
kgs neem cake + 50 kgs
urea + 50 kgs Gypsum
are mixed
Azospirillum and
phosphobacteria each 1
kgs + 50 kgs FYM
VAM culture 50 kgs
All the above are mixed
with top soil and filled in
trench
DRIP IRRIGATION + FERTIGATION
1.
Drip irrigation system for watering and
fertigation
2.
Laterals at 5 feet pacing placed at the centre of
trench
3.
Drippers spacing at the interval of 60 cms
4.
Dripper inline system with 12 mm diameter
5.
Dripper capacity 2 LPH
PLANTING IN THE MAIN FIELD
1.
Beds are watered for 8 to 12 hours before planting
2.
Pre emergence weedicide pendimethilin ( stomp ) is applied @ 1 kh a.i /
acre ( 1.2 lit / acre )
3.
Planting in paired row system - spacing varies according to the type of
vegetables grown
4.
African marigold @ one row for every 16 rows are grown. 40 days old
seedlings of marigold planted
5.
Gap filling on 7 th day done
INTERCULTIVATION
1.
Foliar spray of pseudomonas flouresccense 0.5 %
in 15 days interval for 6 times starting from 30 th
days after planting
2.
Staking with bamboo or eucalyptus pole on 30
DAP
3.
Weeding on 30 th and 60 th DAP
4.
Triacontanol @ 250 ml / 200 lit water ( 1.25 ppm )
sprayed on 15 th and 30 th DAP
5.
Planofix 50 ml / 200 lit water ( 0.25 ppm ) sprayed
on 45, 60 and 90 th DAP
6.
Micronutrient mixture @ 1 gm/ lit ( 0.1 %) sprayed
on 40 th day and 80 th day after planting
7.
19:19:19+Mn @ 1 % ( 10 gram/lit water ) is sprayed
on 60 th DAP
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