Tropical and subtropical vegetables (2+1)

Cropping systems

• Usually cucurbits are sown in relay system just before digging of potatoes in late January or early February in North India and crops like bottle gourd and pumpkin derive residuary benefit of heavy fertilizers applied to potato.
• In garden land areas, in contrast to the river beds, there are definite systems of growing cucurbits in rotation and mixed cropping. In eastern India bottle gourd and pumpkin are grown in rice follows after `aman' paddy.