1. VEGETABLE PROJECT  Modern sustainable farming methods – blend of organic and modern precision farming methods

2. PROJECT LOCATION MAP

3. PROJECT SIZE  Vegetable cultivation on intensive scale in 5 acres  Annual hybrid drumstick in over 5 acres  Pigeon pea + field bean in over 5 acres  Straw berry in over 2 acres

4. SOIL AMENDMENTS Mixing together  Cured pressmud – 10 MT per acre or  FYM 10 MT per acre  Mixed with 250 kgs of Super phosphate + 50 kgs of Urea  100 kgs of Neem cake + 100 kgs of groundnut cake  Azospirillum and Phosphobacteria each 2 kgs  Metarhizium 8 kgs  Pseudomonas 1 kg  VAM 50 kgs  50 kg gypsum  10 kg of Pottasium humate

5. SEEDLING TREATMENT 1. 5% Pseudomonas florescence root dip 2. 500 grams Azosprillum in 40 litre water and dip root for 20 minutes

6. TRAP CROP 1. Marigold 2. Mustard 3. Castor 4. Vitex nedungo 5. Sorghum

7. PEST & DISEASE MANAGEMENT 1. Light trap 5 numbers – 7.00PM to 10.00 PM 2. Yellow sticky trap – 10 numbers 3. Sex pheromone trap 5 numbers 4. Fish meal trap 5. Poison bait -1.25 kg carbaryl + 12.5 kg rice brawn +1.25 kg jaggery water 7.5 litre

8. PLANT BASED PESTICIDE PRODUCT 1. Neem seed kernal extract 5% solution 2. Neem cake extract 5 % solution 3. Vitex plus acorus calamus powder spray 4. Garlic+green chillies + asofoetida extract 10 % for sucking pest control

9. BIO PESTICIDE 1. Bacillus thurigiensis spray @ 2 g /litre water 2. Pseudomonas florescense spray 0.5% disease control 3. NPV virus spray along with teepol 0.5 ml/ lit water and APSA wetting agent @0.5 ml / lit and jaggery @ 20 g/lit water ( phagostimulant )

10. FOLIAR SPRAY 1. Panchagavya 3% solution 2. Sea weed extract 3 % solution 3. Cow urine 3 % solution 4. Humic acid 0.2 % spray

11. MICRO NUTRIENT  10 kgs of micro nutrient mixture per acre mixed in 50 kgs of farm yard manure

12. MULCHING  Coir waste is used as mulch for controlling weeds as well as conserving water

13. PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR Triacontanol to increase flowering and productivity

14. 1. 19:19:19 +MN 2. 13:00:45 3. 12:61:00 4. 17:44:00 5. 00:52:34 6. 00:00:50 7. Used for drips as well as sprinkler irrigation WATER SOLUBLE FERTILIZERS

15. SHADE NET HOUSE FOR HI TECH NURSERY PROGRAM Nursery area - 200 Square meters 50% shade net to be used and side covered with 40/50 mesh insect proof nylon net Raised bed of 1 meter width and convenient length formed and HDPV pipes placed at 2 meter interval for protection against rain with polythene sheets Protray of 98 cells ( 54 *27 cms ) of 3.5 cm dia and 0.8 mm thickness 250 protray needs to be purchased Growing medium – cocopeat @ 300 kgs + Neem cake 5 kgs + Azopsirillum and Phosphobacteria each 1 kg Seed treatment – Azospirillum @ 200 grams/ kg of seed and shade dried for ½ hour SCHEDULED OPERATIONS AT SITE

16. SOWING IN PROTRAY Growing medium – cocopeat @ 300 kgs + Neem cake 5 kgs + Azopsirillum and Phosphobacteria each 1 kg Seed treatment – Azospirillum @ 200 grams/ kg of seed and shade dried for ½ hour Sowing seeds one per cell, covered with cocopeat, kept one above other and covered with polythene sheet till germination After 6 days, germinated protray is placed over the raised beds Panchagavya spray @ 3% ( 30 ml/lit ) on 15 th day 19:19:19+Mn @ 0.5% ( 5 g/lit ) sprayed on 18 th day using rose can

17. 1. Level the field 2. Excavate 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep trenches along the slope 3. 10 MT FYM + 10 bags Super phosphate + 100 kgs neem cake + 50 kgs urea + 50 kgs Gypsum are mixed 4. Azospirillum and phosphobacteria each 1 kgs + 50 kgs FYM 5. VAM culture 50 kgs 6. All the above are mixed with top soil and filled in trench MAIN FIELD PREPARATION

18. 1. Drip irrigation system for watering and fertigation 2. Laterals at 5 feet pacing placed at the centre of trench 3. Drippers spacing at the interval of 60 cms 4. Dripper inline system with 12 mm diameter 5. Dripper capacity 2 LPH DRIP IRRIGATION + FERTIGATION

19. 1. Beds are watered for 8 to 12 hours before planting 2. Pre emergence weedicide pendimethilin ( stomp ) is applied @ 1 kh a.i / acre ( 1.2 lit / acre ) 3. Planting in paired row system - spacing varies according to the type of vegetables grown 4. African marigold @ one row for every 16 rows are grown. 40 days old seedlings of marigold planted 5. Gap filling on 7 th day done PLANTING IN THE MAIN FIELD

20. INTERCULTIVATION 1. Foliar spray of pseudomonas flouresccense 0.5 % in 15 days interval for 6 times starting from 30 th days after planting 2. Staking with bamboo or eucalyptus pole on 30 DAP 3. Weeding on 30 th and 60 th DAP 4. Triacontanol @ 250 ml / 200 lit water ( 1.25 ppm ) sprayed on 15 th and 30 th DAP 5. Planofix 50 ml / 200 lit water ( 0.25 ppm ) sprayed on 45, 60 and 90 th DAP 6. Micronutrient mixture @ 1 gm/ lit ( 0.1 %) sprayed on 40 th day and 80 th day after planting 7. 19:19:19+Mn @ 1 % ( 10 gram/lit water ) is sprayed on 60 th DAP

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