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Inter Cropping and Its Advantages Intercropping is a practice involving growing two or more crops simultaneously on a same piece of land. The main advantage of inter cropping is getting higher returns from the same piece of land which otherwise not be utilized by a single crop. Inter cropping needs a careful planning wherein the soil, water, climate, light etc are taken into account. While planning inter cropping it is important to select the crops which do not compete with each other for space, nutrient, water or sunlight. It is advisable to grow crops like shallow rooted crops with deep rooted crops, tall crop...

Leaf curl disease is one of the major diseases in the World caused by a virus. This virus attacks crops like cotton, papaya, tomato, bhendi, chillies, capsicum, and tobacco and causes major economic losses to the farmers. The leaf curl disease is caused by a complex of whitefly ( Bemisia tabaci ) transmitted Begomoviruses having monopartite genome with circular ssDNA associated with satellite (beta and alpha satellite) DNA molecules. The disease generally appears in the end of June about 45-55 days after sowing and spreads rapidly in July. The disease progress becomes slow in August and almost comes to a...

Now a days where the cities are occupied with flats, vehicles and populations it’s only the house terraces left to plan for a garden. So terrace gardening is a trend in big cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Lucknow and Cochin. The main advantage of terrace gardening is it is organic, keeps a check on the increasing temperature, saves money,  time and bring a positive environment around the house. Many vegetables like brinjal, tomato, chillies, cucurbits etc and flowers like marigold, rose, chrysanthemum, zinnia etc can be grown easily on the terrace with a proper management. It is advisable to...

TOMATO (Lycopersicum esculentum)  Temperature  Seed germination 16-29 0 C   Seedling growth 21-24 0 C   Fruit set (day) 15-17 0 C   Fruit set (night) & red colur development 20-24 0 C Soil Requirement pH of 5.5- 6.8    Seed Rate 400 to 500 g/ha    Seed treatment  Thiram @ 3g/kg of seed to protect from seed born diseases.  Treatment with B. naphthoxyacetic acid (BNOA) at 25 and 50 ppm, gibberllic acid (GA3) at 5-20 ppm and chlorophenoxy acetic at 10 and 20 ppm was found to improve the growth and yield of tomato. Sowing season winter June -...

Rice blast disease is one of the most devastating diseases in India that causes major grain yield losses in farm fields. It is a fungal disease caused by Pyricularia oryzae (sexual stage is Magnaporthe grisea). The disease occurs worldwide where paddy is grown but the severity varies based on the location and environmental conditions. The disease infects all parts of the plant except roots but the severity is high on leaves, nodes and panicles (neck). Leaf blast fungus produces spindle shaped lesions with grey centre and dark brown margins that further reduces the net photosynthetic rate of individual leaf. In...