Potato and Tuber Crops

Interculture

• Pinching off excess sprouts emerging from sets is necessary in cassava cultivation.
• This may be done 30-45 days after planting. As sprouts from top buds are more vigorous than those emerging from lower nodes, retain only two sprouts from top portion, that too on opposite sides of set.
• Inter-culture operations are aimed at removing weeds in early stages of crop and to improve physical condition of sets for proper tuber development.
• First inter-culture operation may be done sufficiently deep at 45-60 days after planting and a shallow inter-culture by way of weeding or earthing up may be given one month after the first.