Pea
Improved Varieties
- Early maturing varieties: AP-3, Matar Ageta-7, Matar Ageta-6 and Arkel
- Main season varieties: Punjab-89 and Mithi Phali
- Sowing and Seed Rate: Sowing from mid-October to mid- November give the best crop in the plains and spacing should be 30×7.5 cm for early and 30×10 cm for main season varieties by inoculating with Rhizobium leguminosarum. Use seed 45 kg for early maturing and 30 kg for main season variety per acre
- Manures and Fertilizers: Apply 8 tonnes of farmyard manure, 20 kg of N (45 kg Urea) and 25 kg P2O5 (155 kg Superphosphate) per acre before sowing
- Weed Control: For chemical weed control use Stomp 30 EC (pendimethalin) @1.0 litre per acre within 2 days of sowing
Potato
Improved Varieties
- Early Varieties: Kufri Surya, Kufri Pukhraj, Kufri Ashoka, Kufri Chandramukhi
- Mid-Season Varieties: Kufri Pushkar, Kufri Bahar, Kufri Jyoti
- Late Varieties: Kufri Badshah, Kufri Sindhuri
- Processing Varieties: Kufri Frysona, Kufri Chipsona-3, Kufri Chipsona- 1
- Seed Rate: For autumn sowing 13-18 q/acre seed tubers of 40- 50 g weight should be used for planting. If the seed raised from autumn crop is to be used for spring planting, its dormancy should be broken by dipping cut tubers in a solution of 1% Thiourea and 1 ppm Gibberellic Acid (one ml per 100 litres of water) for an hour followed by air drying the treated tuber pieces for 24 hours in thin layers in shade
- Time of Sowing: The best time for sowing is last week of September to mid-October for the autumn crop and the second fortnight of January for the spring crop
- Method of Planting: For mechanized planting, the spacing between the rows and tuber should be kept 65×18.5 cm or 75 cm×15 cm respectively depending upon the available machinery
- Earthing-up: Use a double mould board plough or a ridger for earthing up after 25-30 days of sowing
- Weed Control: Application of paddy straw mulch @24 q/acre immediately after planting. Sencor/Tanoshi 70 WP (metribuzin) @ 200 g as pre-emergence
Chili
- Hybrids: CH-27, CH-3, CH-1
- Varieties: Punjab Sindhuri, Punjab Tej, Punjab Surkh
- Sowing Time: Sow the seed during end October to mid November.
- Seed Rate: Seed rate is 200 g per acre when sown in the nursery. Sow nursery in one marla (25m2) area to transplant one acre
- Nursery: To ensure successful growing of healthy seedlings from costly hybrid seed of chilli, nursery should be grown under polyhouse (size 24’ × 13’ × 6’) made of UV stabilized low density polyethylene film of 200 microns (800 guage) thickness
Time of sowing under polyhouse | Time of transplanting |
a) Third week of November | Mid February |
b) First week of February | End of April |
- Spacing: Plant thick and stout seedlings on ridges at 75 cm apart with plant to plant spacing of 45 cm as they perfoem better than tall seedlings
Growth Regulator: Due to high temperature in May-June dropping of flowers take place. Two foliar sprays of naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) at 10-day interval @4g after 45 and 55 days of transplanting to increases the green and red ripe fruit yield of chilli