Year: 2015 | Month: July | Volume 2 | Issue 2
Determination of Transplanting Time of the Capsicum Seedlings for Yield and Profit Maximization
Dulal Chandra Manna and Prabuddha Ray
DOI:10.5958/2454-9541.2015.00001.8
Abstract :
Capsicum as a high value Vegetable Crop is immensely popular among the farmers of the Birbhum District of the State of West Bengal in India. But the farmers are unable to get maximum yield and profi t from this Vegetable as early and late transplanting of the Capsicum seedlings invite viral diseases which cause low production. Hence, standardization of the optimum transplanting time of the Capsicum seedlings is a serious need of the Capsicum farmers. Hence, the present study aims to focus on determination of optimum time of transplanting of the Capsicum seedlings to maximize the Yield component and Profi t component and to minimize the insect-pest a ack. The present study showed that early as well as delayed transplanting of Capsicum seedlings also faced the problem of
rain and associated surge of insect pest infestation in the months of September, October and February as well as increased temperature which reduced Yield.
