Farmar Name: Yaseen Kamal Patel

Villege: Hirekodi, Chikodi
District: Belgaum (Karnataka)

INTRODUCTION

Shri. Yaseen Kamal Patel used to grow Marigold on his 0.3 hectare of field using traditional irrigation method of flood irrigation and his total yield used to be 4100 (kg/acre). He wants to increase the yield of his crop so he introduced Epc drip irrigation system for Marigold in his field. Through the use of this technique on the same field and same crop, the crop yield increased from 4100 (Kg/acre) to 8500 (kg/acre).

Although there was a increase in total cost of cultivation from Rs 28100 to Rs 40950 but the net returns on for the crop increases from Rs 84650 to Rs 192800.

Before

After

Area Detail
Area under Drip Irrigation 0.4 ha
Variety East west Gold
Plant Population 4500
Soil Type Medium Black
Row to Row Spacing 90 cms
Plant to Plant Spacing 60 cms
Method of Planting Seedling Transplanting on raised beds in single row
MI system Inline 16 / 4 / 40
Emitter Spacing 0.4 meter
Date of transplanting 20 January 2012
Harvesting period 22 Feb 12 to 5 May 2012

Fertigation schedule
Fertigation Schedule
19:19:19

10 day after planting

1 February 2012

4 kg each at 4 days interval 25 Kg
0:0:50

1 March 2012

4 kg each at 4 days interval 25 kg
13:0:45

20 March

4 kg each at 4 days interval 25 kg
Other fertilizers given DAP 1 bag

Urea 2 bag

Potash 3 bag

Pest and diseases Bud caterpillars

Aphids

Thrips