Brinjal

Soils & Climate

Soil

Climate

Soil

A deep fertile, well-drained, silt loam or clay loam soil with a pH of 5.5 to 6.0 is the best for cultivation of brinjal.
The crop is better adapted for cultivation on heavy clay or light soils also.
Brinjal is rated as a moderately salt-tolerant crop and the reported salinity threshold is about 5 ds m^-1.
In heavy clay soils and light soils, it is desirable to add well decomposed farm yard manure (FYM) @ 20-25 tonnes/ha and incorporated atleast two weeks before transplanting.
FYM improves proper aeration in heavy clay soils and water holding capacity in light soils which is beneficial for better growth and development of the brinjal.

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Climate

Brinjal is a warm season crop and requires humid climate for its best growth
Of all the solanaceous vegetable, brinjal is the most sensitive to frost and low temperature.
It requires about five months of frost-free period for proper growth and development.
It flourishes best during warm growing season with a temperature range of 25-27^oC.
A day temperature of below 35^oC and night temperature of above 16^oC considered optimum.
Very low temperature especially below 15^oC will affect the growth of the plant as well as fruit quality.
Low humidity and high temperature can cause heavy flower drop and poor fruit set.
Brinjal also has a high-moisture requirement and responds well to irrigation during the periods of drought and high temperature.
It flourishes well in areas receiving a moderate rainfall ranging form 600-1000 mm.
It cannot withstand excessive rainfall especially during flowering and fruit set.
Excessive rainfall brings about defoliation, wilting and rotting of the plant.
Brinjal cannot tolerate water logging.
The crop should not to be grown after chillies, potato, tomato or tobacco because of carryover of soil-borne pathogens and nematodes.

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Tamilnadu

Brinjal

About Brinjal

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Brinjal Management

Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamilnadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.