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Cropping System

Cropping System : 

Turmeric is rotated with paddy, sugarcane, banana, etc. once in 3 or 4 years and it can be intercropped with sugar cane, chilli, onion, garlic, elephant’s foot yam, vegetables, pulses, wheat, ragi and maize. It can be grown as mixed crop with red gram, chilli, colocasia, vegetable, maize and ragi. In West Bengal, turmeric is grown as an intercrop with mango, jack-tree and litchi and on the west coast with coconut and arecanut. In Gujarat, it is cultivated as a crop subsidiary to ginger and in other areas with chilli and quick-growing vegetables. Often castor and pigeon-pea are planted on borders and on irrigation channels to provide shade.