Cultivation practices followed in brinjal in Ratnagiri district

Abstract

In recent year in Konkan region area under brinjal cultivation is increasing. However, information regarding cultivation practices followed in brinjal is scanty. So efforts are made in the paper to study cultivation practices followed in brinjal. It is found that the important operations involved in the brinjal cultivation in Ratnagiri district are preparation of land, seedling preparation, transplanting, irrigation, weeding, earthing up, gap filling, fertilizer application, plant protection, and harvesting etc. Labour is an important input in cultivation of brinjal crop as its cultivation is labour intensive. At overall level it was found that among the operations highest labour were used for harvesting followed by weeding, Transplanting, fertilizer application, preparation of land, plant protection, gap filling, seedling preparation, irrigation and earthing up. It is also found that the utilization of input such as seed, fertilizer, manure, pesticide, fungicide, labour also increases with increasing size holding which result in increasing productivity.