Field preparation

• Four to five ploughing and leveling of land is needed
• Direct sowing
• Seeds should be planted in ridges
• Provision should be made for drainage

a) Seed rate-

• 750 gm/ ropani for summer crop
• 500 gm/ ropani for rainy season crop• Spacing
• Summer crop- 60 cm x 15 cm
• Rainy crop- 100 cm x 20 cm

b) Manuring and Fertilizer

• Compost- 1 mt/Ropani, NPK- 3, 2, 2 kg
• Sweet peper- Compost- 1 mt/Ropani, NPK- 4, 3, 3 kg per ropani
• Application- Compost and 2kg N, PK as basal dose, 0.5 kg of N after one month of transplanting and 0.5 kg of N during flowering and fruiting stage

c) Irrigation:

• 4 days interval in summer crop
• 7-10 irrigation during the crop period for rainy crop

d) Intercultural operation

• 4 hoeing at 15 days interval to control weeds
• Chemical control of weeds- Apply Basalin @125 ml per crop