Horticulture :: Spice Crops :: Minor spices

Minor - Spice crops

Name (Botanical name)

Method of propagation

Spacing

Manurial recommendation

After cultivation and special practices if any

Cropping and harvest

Yield

All spice (Pimenta officinalis Lindl.)

Six months old seedlings.  Hard wood cuttings

6 x 6 m

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Weeding and hoeing whenever needed

Harvest season July - August.  Harvest when the berries are fully mature but unripe.  Cured by sun drying till the berries become crisp and produce a metallic sound.

50 - 60 kg of dry berries/tree.

Remarks: Economic part: Dried fruits, dried leaves are used for flavouring.

Mustard (Brassica juncea (L) Czenjajer.)

Seed 6 - 7 kg/ha

45 x 30 cm in beds

Basal: FYM 25 t N 25 kg, P 60 kg.  Top dressing: N 25 kg

2 - 3 weedings

Duration: 3 - 4 months.  Plants pulled after pods turn brown, dried in the sun and threshed.

1000 - 1200 kg/ha

 
 
 
 
 
 

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