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Seedco Field Day

The document outlines agricultural practices for various crops including butternuts, onions, watermelons, carrots, and sugar beans, emphasizing the importance of proper land preparation, soil testing, and pest management. It provides specific details on crop spacing, fertilizer types, irrigation methods, and disease management for each crop. Additionally, it mentions the economic aspects such as planting densities and potential yields per hectare.

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Seedco Field Day

The document outlines agricultural practices for various crops including butternuts, onions, watermelons, carrots, and sugar beans, emphasizing the importance of proper land preparation, soil testing, and pest management. It provides specific details on crop spacing, fertilizer types, irrigation methods, and disease management for each crop. Additionally, it mentions the economic aspects such as planting densities and potential yields per hectare.

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Butternuts

Prism small crop. 5 – 6 crops per plants

Granite bigger crop

Fruit flies usually affects the crop at flowering stage.

Bassal fertilizers are used but soil tests are recommended. Could be used in combination with cattle
manure akaorera.

Top dressing - AN

15k plants per hectare

1.5 x 0 5 spacing

Summer crops from August

80 days to mature

Cracks are caused by excess water

Drip line and overhead irrigation can be used

Use pre emergency herbicides

Could use GO

Onion 600k to 1m per hectare

$1 for 16 minimum

Most onions are imported.

Good land prep

20 to 30cm depth

Raised beds

Drip or sprinkle

12cm plant

8cm line

AN top dressing

Calcium nitrate

Have soil tests

Diseases- no Diseases at all


Varieties – Texas grano 140 to 150 days $24

Hybrid 90 days dry varieties

Dinner f1 90 to 110 days

Regent 90 to 110 days maturity

Red onion Neptune

Certain late maturity

$3500 to $4000 per hectare

500g cost 150

Summer onion – December nursery Dinner in a greenhouse

Could sale Green crops

0777306020 Bright Musakanda

Water melon

Good land prep

Roots require 20 to 30 CM

Aeration is required by horticulture crops crops

300 to 400 compound c

10k

1M x 1m

Chose proper seed

Hybrid is preferable, less diseases

1. Calcium must be enough


2. Fruit fly must be taken care of
3. Pollination, open for pollination for 24hrs. Must have bee hives available

Kito F1

Carrots

Varieties

90 to 100
40 to tons per hectare

Proper land prep

Avoid water logged areas

Comp C basal fertilizers

20cm to 30cm inter raw

Mix with fine sand in salt shaker

Weed control, pest control

1sqm 90 to 120 carrots

Less nitrogen

Season, all year around.

Kuroda or heclar during rain season

Sugar beans

Right seed

Land prep and soil test

5.5 to 5.8ph

Gadra early maturity 75 days

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