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Important suggestions for Vegetable farmers

Vegetable farming: Irrigate vegetable crops once a week but in light soils after 4-5 days. To prepare nematode-free seedlings, treat the soil with solarisation by covering the soil with a polyethylene sheet for 40 days. To prepare early seedlings of cabbage and brinjal in vegetables, mix 20-25 baskets of organic manure per marla in the soil and when the soil is ready, make a band for nursery sowing and use 3 and 2 grams of seeds per marla for sowing respectively. To plant onion seedlings, prepare the seedlings by sowing 30 grams of seeds per marla. Use 25-37 grams of seed per marla for sowing Punjab 8 or Punjab 7 varieties of ladyfinger and at the time of its sowing, apply 125 kg of organic manure, and 250 grams of urea fertilizer per marla. Use 6 ml Stop or 5 ml Basalin per marla for the prevention of weeds. Pusa Chetki variety of radish is sown at 45 cm spacing on the beds and uses 25 grams of seed per marla.