Potato and Tuber Crops

Manuring and Interculture

• Apply 12 tonnes of farmyard manure per hectare and mix it with prior to planting.
• Taro requires a fertilizer dose of 80 kg N, 25 kg P205 an 100 kg of K20/ha in two or three split doses.
• One-third dose of nitrogen, full dose of phosphorus and one-third potash are to be applied at two weeks after sprouting.
• Remaining dose of nitrogen and potash may be applied in equal split doses at monthly intervals after the first application of fertilizer.
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  Weeding and earthing up are to be done along with application of fertilizers. Small, unhealthy suckers from mother plant have to be removed along with second weeding and earthing up operation.