Raised bed sowing

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "How to create a new vegetable garden: Producing a beautiful and fruitful garden from scratch" provides readers with contents including: sowing and growing; raising plants under cover; early sowings and plantings; successional sowings and plantings; one bed, one year; growing under cover; hot beds; perennial vegetables;...

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The objectives of sowing operation are to put the seed along with fertilizer in rows at desired depth and seed to seed spacing, cover the seeds with soil and provide proper compaction over the seed. The machinery such as seed cum fertilizer drill with attachment of furrow irrigated raised bed (FIRB), broad bed furrow (BBF) and ridge & furrow systems are used to sow the seeds on raised beds in a pulverized soil so as to allow easy emergence of seed with proper moisture availability and better drainage during excess rainfall events.

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A field experiment was conducted at Crop Research Centre of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture &Technology, Meerut (U.P.) during Rabi season of 2014-15 and 2015-16. To evaluate the effect of different tillage practices and irrigation scheduling in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under light textured soil of western Uttar Pradesh. Five tillage crop establishment methods, viz.

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A field experiment entitled, “Performance of maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids under different planting methods and nitrogen levels” was conducted at Agronomy research farm, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during kharif 2013 and 2014. The experiment consisted of four planting techniques viz. Raised Bed System (RBS), Flat Sowing with Zero Tillage (FSZT), Flat Sowing with Minimum Tillage (FSMT) and Flat Sowing with Conventional Tillage (FSCT) in main plots and two maize hybrids viz. HQPM-1 and HQPM-5 and three nitrogen levels viz.

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An assessment of raised bed sowing of chickpea was done during rabi season in the vertisols of Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh in Central India. The study was conducted for two consecutive years viz. 2014-15 and 2015-16. Chickpea variety JG-63 was considered for the study. Average crop yield under the flat bed planting was observed to be 11.95 q/ha whereas the same under the raised bed planting was 15.15 q/ha.

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An assessment of raised bed sowing of pigeon pea was done in the vertisols of Narsinghpur district in Central Narmada Valley Agro-climatic Zone of Madhya Pradesh during the years 2014-15 and 2015-16. Due to the long spell of rains in the district the flat bed sown pigeon pea was not giving good results. As an alternative the raised bed sowing as assessed. Pigeon pea variety TJT 501 was taken for the study. The results were very encouraging. Under the flat bed sowing the crop yield was just 9.75 q/ha which improved to 15.23 q/ha under the raise bed sowing.

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Evaluation of different chickpea sowing technologies under paddy residue conditions was conducted in a harvested paddy field. Field of paddy was harvested with combine. Chickpea variety (JG-130) was sown with different farm machines in four treatments viz., T1: Happy seeder, T2: Zero till seed cum fertilizer drill, T3: Conventional seed cum fertilizer drill and T4: Raised bed seed cum fertilizer drill in harvested R-1 variety of paddy fields. In T1, all the paddy straw was remained in the field itself and spreaded uniformly.

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