Practice Name:

Relay Cropping

Details
Category	Harvest Farm Machinery
Crop
Crop Family
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Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Seeds of groundnut, gingelly, bengal gram, cotton and cowpea.
Details of Innovation	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 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 oil seeds and pulses. Later on, the he picks cotton. When farmers stagger the planting dates for these crops, the costs of ploughing, making ridges and furrows as well as weeding and spraying are reduced considerably. Thus they can take the advantage of three harvests in a single season.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	S Vel Murugan
City / District	Madurai
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra , Agricultural College and Research Institute,TNAU, Madurai -625001
Address	P.O: Thethoor, Via:Palamedu,Vadipatti, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farming
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	625006

PAS_1	Relay cropping as a sustainable approach - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311318813_Relay_cropping_as_a_sustainable_approach_problems_and_opportunities_for_sustainable_crop_production
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Tamil Nadu uplands and leeward flanks of south Sahyadris, hot, dry semi-arid eco-subregion (8.1)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0010000001070
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/830
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN