P1 nursery raising in vegetables

nursery raising in vegetables

1. NURSERY
MANAGEMENT

2. Introduction
•Definition
•Need
•Advantages
•Site selection
•Soil requirement
•Propagation

3. SUNKEN BEDS RAISED BEDS
Types of nursery
i.According to type of plants
ii.On the basis of structure
iii.Time of Nursery Raising
iv.According to position
v.Based on the landscape

5. Horizontal Nursery Vertical Nursery

6. Methods of Nursery preparation
•Open field Nursery
•Pot nursery
•Poly house
•Potting plug
•Tunnel system
•Polythene bags/poly bags
•Tray system

7. Open field nursery Pot nursery
Seedlings in polyhouse potting plugs

8. Low-Tunnel system Polythene bags/poly bags

9. Irrigation Channel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - -
Irrigation Channel - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Water drainage

1 M
30 cm Irrigation Channel - - - - - - - - - - -
Path
LAY OUT PLAN OF NURSERY BED
1 M

10. Layout of nursery
1: Main road, 2: Gate, 3:
Nursery road, 4: Path, 5:
Office, 6: Labor shed, 7: Store
rooms, 8: Vehicle shed,9:
Potted plants, 10: Saplings, 11:
Seedlings, 12: Propagation/mist
chamber, 13: Shade net house,
14: Poly house, 15: Seedling
beds, 16: Mother beds, 17:
Well/water source, 18: Water
pipeline, 19: Soil dumping, 20:
Compost area, 21: Mother
plants, 22: Fencing, 23: Plant
library, 24:
Generator/Electricity room).

11. Inputs
1) Containers
2) Nursery media:
Soil is a very common easily available and comparatively cheaper
medium
 Sand is generally used in mother bed and vegetative plant
propagation
3) Propagules: Seed, cutting, rootstock, scion, explants, etc.
4) Water and fertilizers
5) Chemicals
6) Tools
7) Electricity
8) Machinery
9) Labour

12. General Nursery
tools
Automated container filling
machines

13. OPERATIONS IN NURSERYBED
1.SOIL TREATMENT

14. Continued…….
2. Methods of seed sowing
3. Seed treatment
4. Thinning
5. Mulching
6. Hardening off

15. Most common disease of nursery
a)Leaf spot
b)Damping off
c)Anthracnose
d)Leaf curl

16. Scarification is required in
a)Fenugreek
b)Spinach
c)Coriander
d)Amaranth
e)Lettuce

17. Damping off is caused by
a)Pythium spp.
b)Phytophthora spp.
c)Rhizoctonia solani

18. •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz-
3t64XNm4- raising seedlings
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1-
K7qpuGYY- tansplanting
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAFS1uU
QPCA- hi-tech nursery