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Nursery bed preparation for Cabbage

The cabbage seeds are sown in a seedbed and 4-6 week old seedlings are transplanting to the field.
Raised beds of size 3 x 0.6 m and 10-15 cm in height are prepared.
About 70 cm distance is kept between two beds to carry out intercultural operations such as weeding, etc.
The surface of beds should be smooth and well levelled.
Well-decomposed FYM @ 8-10 kg/square m is added at the time of bed preparation.
Raised beds are necessary to avoid the problem of water logging in heavy soils.
To avoid mortality of seedlings due to damping off, drenching of the beds with Thiophanate Methyl 70% WP @ (30g/15 litres of water) is effective.

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04/09/2018

Nursery bed preparation for Chilli:-

The soil should be dry and ploughed thoroughly to bring fine tilth.
The size of the nursery to raise seedlings for planting a hectare of chilli would be 180 m x 1.2 m (divided into 3 m x 1.2 m smaller beds).
One cartload of well rotten powdered FYM or sieved compost should be spread and 10 kg of super phosphate is mixed thoroughly with the soil.
Aldrin or Dialdrin wettable powder 30 gm per bed should be applied to keep away the white ants.
The bed usually kept raised about 15 cm. high so as to provide proper drainage of excess water.
One week before sowing the soil should be sterilized by drenching with commercial formalin (formaldehyde 40%) at 1:100 dilution at the rate of 5 liter per sq/meter against damping off disease.

Disease Free Nursery Raising

Healthy seed should be selected for sowing.
The seed should be treated with Thiram+Carboxin @ 2g/kg of seed before sowing.
Continuous raising of nursery in the same plot should be avoided.
The top soil of nursery should be treated with Carbendazim 12%+ Mancozeb 63% @ 5g/m area of the soil and nursery should be drenched with the same chemical @ 2g/litre of water at fortnight interval.
Soil solarization by spreading 250 gauge polythene sheet over the bed for 30 days before sowing in summer season should be done.
Application of bio-control agent Trichoderma viride in soil @ 1.2kg/ha is also found effective to control damping-off to considerable extent.

Season of Transplanting:-

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The seeds are sown in nursery bed and 4-6 weeks old seedlings are transplanted to the field.
Raised beds of size 3*6 m. and 10-15 cm. in height are prepared.
About 70 cm. distance is kept between two beds to carry out intercultural operations.
The surface of nursery beds should be smooth and well leveled.
Well decomposed fym @ 8-10 kg/m. square is added at the time of bed preparation.
Raised beds avoid problem of water logging in heavy soils.
To avoid mortality of seedlings due to damping off, drench the beds three weeks before sowing with carbendazim 50% WP @ 15-20 gm/ 10 litre of water.

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