Success Story of Ratna Rai on Organic Integrated Management Practices in Potato Cultivation
Pranab Dutta*
College of Agriculture, Kyrdemkulai, CAU (Imphal), Ri Bhoi, Meghalaya (793 104), India
Abhay K. Pandey
TRA-NBRRDC, Nagrakata, West Bengal (735 225), India
Richa Varshney
ICAR-NBAIR, Bengaluru, Karnataka (560 024), India
Madhusmita Mahanta
CAU-CPGSAS, CAU (Imphal), Umiam, Meghalaya (793 103), India
Tanjil Rahman
CAU-CPGSAS, CAU (Imphal), Umiam, Meghalaya (793 103), India
Jesonkere Sutnga
CAU-CPGSAS, CAU (Imphal), Umiam, Meghalaya (793 103), India
Samaritan Dutta
ADAC&RI, TNAU, Navalurkottapattu, Tamil Nadu (620 027), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Organic cultivation, Pest and diseases, Potato, Management
Abstract
The adoption of integrated organic practices like use of healthy seed tubers + tuber treatment with Trichoderma harzianum based biopesticides (TRPATH01 and UmTricho) @ 10 ml litre-1 + soil application TRPATH01 or UmTricho enriched compost @ 200 kg acre-1 + three foliar application of UmComb @ 10 ml litre-1 + installation of yellow sticky trap @ 10 ha-1 + release of Chrysopid @ 10,000 ha-1 + timely irrigation and intercultural practices + regular crop monitoring lead to successful cultivation of potato crop with significant increase in and CBR with significant reduction of the pest and diseases. The success of Ratna Rai motivated more farmers for adoption of the practices for cultivation of other vegetables and field crops. These practices can further adopted by the other district of Sikkim and other states for organic crop cultivation with need based refinement.
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