High Content Of Natural Steroid Found In It Has Medicinal Properties
Himanshu Bhatt | TNN
Surat: Potato is the most commonly consumed vegetable in the world. The same potato if grown on creepers and not under the soil can work wonders. This variety of potato has a high content of natural steroid which when extracted and used as a medicine would work as an oral male contraceptive.
A field experiment was conducted during 2002-03 and 2003-04 at Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana to study the possible options for diversification of existing rice-wheat cropping system.
An experiment was conducted during 2005-06 and 2006-07 in the Division of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Khalsa College, Amritsar to study the effect of combined used of farmyard manure and poultry manure with 75, 100 and 125 per cent NPK on productivity, nutrient uptake and profitability of autumn potato.
Poor, marginalized people in rural areas of Nepal, who depend solely on natural resources and climatesensitive sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries for their livelihoods, are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Most farmers depend on monsoon rain for crop cultivation, so changing rainfall patterns could have devastating results.
The government has allowed a number of private companies for importing High Yielding Variety (HYV) of potato seeds aimed at increasing production of potato in the next season.
Experiment with new red variety that has low sugar content; a hit with food chains
Prashant Dayal | TNN
Ahmedabad: French fries and wedges are irresistible. And now eating them may not take you on a guilt trip. Some farmers of Palanpur in north Gujarat have started growing a variety of potatoes that have low sugar content than the conventional ones.
