My potato yield looks fine in number but the tubers are small and fetch a poor rate. How do I size them up?
Why are my potato (aloo) tubers small and how do I get bigger, gradeable tubers?
RRakesh Patidar8 महीने पहले · 289 व्यू
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🌾Farmer.in Krishi Teamविशेषज्ञ ✓8 महीने पहले
Tuber size depends on having enough room, water and nutrition during the bulking stage and on the crop staying healthy long enough to fill the tubers. Too close a spacing and too dense a stand give many tiny tubers, so use correct seed size and spacing. Keep soil evenly moist during tuber bulking because moisture stress at that stage stunts sizing, but avoid waterlogging. Earthing up properly gives tubers room to expand and prevents greening. Balanced nutrition, especially adequate potash along with nitrogen and phosphorus per your Soil Health Card, supports bulking, while excess nitrogen pushes haulm at the cost of tubers. Protect the foliage from early and late blight so the crop keeps making food for the tubers. Match variety and crop duration to your season and confirm spacing and fertiliser with your KVK.
DDinesh Verma8 महीने पहले
When I widened my spacing a little and kept the moisture steady during bulking my tuber size improved a lot the next season.
MMahendra Patidar7 महीने पहले
Earthing up properly made a clear difference for me. A good ridge gives the tubers room to swell and keeps them covered. Where my ridges were low and broken, the tubers stayed small and some greened at the top.
LLokesh Chouhan7 महीने पहले
Check that you are not cutting the crop short with disease. My foliage died early from blight one year and the tubers never bulked up. Once I protected the leaves and the crop stayed green to maturity, the bulking time was longer and the tubers were bigger. Healthy leaves feed the tubers.
SSarita Patidar7 महीने पहले
Adequate potash helped my sizing along with the nitrogen. The blocks where I balanced potash per the soil test bulked better than where I only pushed urea. Too much nitrogen gave me lush tops and small tubers, so I follow my Soil Health Card now rather than guessing.
GGovind Verma7 महीने पहले
Seed size and spacing together fixed my tiny tubers. I was planting small seed too close and got a mass of marble sized potatoes. Using proper sized seed at the recommended spacing gave fewer plants but much bigger gradeable tubers that sold for a better rate.