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Ladys Finger/Okra/Bhindi – vegetable seeds

Name: Ladys Finger/Okra/Bhindi - vegetable seeds
SKU: seed - veg - okra
Price: 50.00 INR
Availability: InStock

₹50.00

Ladys Finger / Okra is a nutritious food with many health benefits. It’s rich in magnesium, folate, fiber, antioxidants, and vitamin C, K1, and A. Okra may benefit pregnant women, heart health, and blood sugar control. It may even have anticancer properties

SKU: seed - veg - okra Category: Vegetable seeds

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Okra or Okro, Abelmoschus esculentus, known in many English-speaking countries as ladies’ fingers or ochro, is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It is valued for its edible green seed pods.

Season
Planting can be done during June – August and February

Preparation of field
Plough the land 4 – 5 times and apply FYM 10 kg, neem cake 1 kg, super phosphate 100 g and Furadon 10 g/sq.m during last ploughing. Form ridges and furrows at 45 cm apart.

Seed rate
Varieties : 8.0 kg / ha
Hybrids : 2.5 kg / ha

Seed treatment
Seed treatment with Tricoderma viride @ 4 g/kg or Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 10 g/ kg of seeds and again with 400 g of Azospirillum using starch as adhesive and dried in shade for 20 minutes. Sow three seeds per hill at 30 cm apart and then thin to 2 plants per hill after 10 days.

Sowing
Sow three seeds per hill at 30 cm apart and then thin to 2 plants per hill after 10 days.

Spacing
Seeds are sown at a spacing of 45 x 30 cm.