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Cropping System

Cropping System 

Crop rotation is essential for balancing the nutrient status of soil since ginger is an exhausting crop and also to avoid soft rot disease in ginger. In irrigated lands, ginger is rotated with betel-vine, turmeric, onion, garlic, chillies, other vegetables, sugarcane, maize, ragi and groundnut. Under rain-fed conditions, it may be grown once in 3 or 4 years in rotation with tapioca, sweet-potato, Yam, chilli and dry paddy. It may be grown alone or mixed with shade giving plants, e.g. banana, pigeon-pea, tree castor and cluster bean (guar) & Maize

In coconut, young coffee and orange plantation on the west coast, ginger is grown as an intercrop. At higher altitudes in Himachal Pradesh, tomato and chilli are grown as intercrops with ginger.

In Sikkim, ginger is mainly grown as rainfed and as annual crop during kharif. It may be grown as pure crop or mixed crop with maize. Mixed cropping with maize is most common with rotation of once in 3 to 4 years.

In jhum cultivation it is grown as a mixed crop with paddy and maize on hill slopes of the North Eastern region.