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Category
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Harvest Farm Machinery
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Crop
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Groundnut, Gingelly, Bengal gram, Cotton and Cowpea.
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Scientific Name
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(Archis hypogea),(Sesamum indicum),(Gossipium),(Vigna unguiculata)
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Scout
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HBN
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Ingredients
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Seeds of groundnut, gingelly, Bengal gram, cotton and cowpea.
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Details Of Innovation
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Farmer uses the technique of relay cropping to harvest three crops in one season. During karthigai to margazhi (November-December), Murugan sows groundnut as the irrigated crop. He grows gingelly, Bengal gram, and cowpea on the bunds. After 45 days, when he weeds the groundnut for the second time, he plants seeds of cotton and applies gypsum in the field. Within three months, groundnut can be harvested along with the oilseeds and pulses. Later on, he picks cotton. When farmers stagger the planting dates for these crops, the costs of plowing, making ridges and furrows, and weeding and spraying, are reduced considerably. Thus they can take advantage of three harvests in a single season.
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