Soil and climate

• A friable well drained red loamy soil in wet or garden lands under tropical conditions is ideal.
  
  
• It can be grown in regions receiving an annual rainfall of 1500 m

Season

• May-June is suitable

Seed Treatment

• Seed treatment with P. fluorescens 10 g/kg and T. viride as 4 g/ Kg.

Propagation

• Mother rhizome & finger rhizomes. Seed rate of finger rhizome - 2000kg/ha.

Main Field Preparation:

• Main field is ploughed four times with chisel and disc plough each one time and cultivator twice.
  
  
• Ridges and furrows are formed at spacing of 45 cm (or) raised beds of 120 cm width are formed at an interval of 30 cm and the laterals are placed at the centre of each bed.
  
  
• The beds are wetted for 8-12 hours through drip irrigation depending upon soil moisture level.

Spacing

• 45 x 15 cm. 25-30 g weight rhizomes are to be dibbled at a depth of 4 cm.