Vegetables in hill agriculture

The current paper examines the cost in and returns from the four major producing vegetables in Uttarakhand.

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Knol khol (Brassica oleracea var. Gongylodes L.) is one of the important cruciferous vegetable crops of mid hills of Jammu & Kashmir. It is a short duration crop, biennial showing seed maturiy in the month of April-May.Its maturity coincides with the sowing of maize crop which is the main staple crop of the region. To enable the farmers to go for knolkhol seed production, a two year field experiment was conducted at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Rajouri, SKUAST-Jammu during 2011-12 and 2012-13.

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The paper summarizes research results of the use of different types of grasses; their use as important and effective vegetative hedge that when grown on the contour significantly reduces the flow of sediment from eroding sites and reduces runoff, both simultaneously, and at a low cost, compared to more traditional engineered practices. Various grasses have unique characteristics and capability to reduce run off, bind soil at slope over a wide range of site conditions.

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Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an important commercial vegetable of tropical and subtropical regions of India. Tomato growers need proper and regular training with regard to cultivating of tomato as it needs close attention in detail and continuous care from sowing time to harvesting. Training has become a critical input in view of the growing sophistication in agricultural technology as well as its cost intensive nature. Study revealed that variables like education, innovation proneness, economic motivation and extension contact were significant at 0.

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This assumption has long influenced interpretations of human evolution in the humid tropics 1 4. It presumed that the first Americans would not have been broad spectrum foragers but instead big game hunters following herds from the Siberian steppes into similar American habitats 8.Only after those megafauna went extinct at the end of the Ice Age were people hypothesized to have developed agriculture in the dry, open vegetation valleys of the Central Andes and Mesoamerica, before finally migrating into the tropical forests and coastal lowlands.

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