Good Horticultural Practices (GHP) for effective resource conservation and productivity in vegetables
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Authors
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A G K Reddy
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 059
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G Nirmala
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 059
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4536-3297
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P K Pankaj
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 059
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B Sanjeeva Reddy
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 059
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Josily Samuel
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 059
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K Ravi Shankar
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Santoshnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 059
Keywords:
Drip irrigation, Nursery, Plastic mulching, Staking, Vegetable cropsAbstract
Good Horticultural Practices (GHP) holds a promising option for improving profitability and sustainability in dryland region of India. Good Horticultural Practices was initiated as one of the interventions under Farmers FIRST Project (FFP) for improving the sustainability and profitability of agriculture in Pudur Mandal, Vikarabad district, Telangana. The four major technologies selected
under this intervention were a) plastic mulching with drip irrigation schedules, b) pest control in vegetables, c) vegetable nursery and d) staking in creepers. Results to be added after this in tomato polythene mulching remarkably improved the plant biomass, earliness and registered 94.7% higher dry matter over unmulched control. Maximum fruit yield (3.66 kg/plant) was recorded with polythene mulch. Nursery is convenient to look and after the baby seedlings, it is possible to provide favourable growth conditions. In tomato crop staking yields 38.1 t/ha and pruning yields 31.7 t/ha is better than control yield 30.4 t/ha.
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