Sweet potato grown from root slices

Finally succeeded in growing sprouts from the sweet potato cuttings. Failed in few attempts. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Method we followed to grow sweet potato sprouts: * Purchased sweet potato from the local farmer market nearby. * Made sweet potato into few pieces with nodes using knife. * Folded the sweet potato peices with wet gunny bag. * Left it until we saw little green sprout on the nodes. * After...

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Farm update February 2020

Farm update The prices of the vegetables including bottle gourd decreased. Few resources say it's due to coronavirus. Thus, no exports or imports. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Bottle gourd price decreased to 60 RS per bag. The arrival of bottle gourd to Retail vegetable market also increased. Would not able to sell a bag to 60 RS in local markets. Seed Saving This February saved Brinjal and Okra seeds. Extracting...

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Experience on supplying farm grown vegetables to local farmer market.

From the past 1 month, we have been supplying Bottle gourd. Don't know where to start from...! Would like to share our experience in supplying vegetables to local farmer market. We planted bottle gourd seeds on the end of October 2019. It started yeilding from January 2020. Here, we used organic (poultry manure) as well as chemical fertilizers (N:P:K). Thus, it is semi organic. The bottle gourd is harvested for every two days once. That is only one day intervel between the harvests. The price of bottle gourd were down. The farm gate price of...

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