Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label How many 50kg bags of beans per hectare

Kabulangeti Beans Production

Kabulangeti beans is an indeterminate (semi-climber). The seed size is medium with a maturity period of 75 to 80 days. Seed rate is 60kg/ha with a spacing of 60 × 10cm. Kabulangeti beans can be grown in all the three Agro-ecological zones that is region 1, 2 & 3. The yield potential is 1, 500 to 2, 000kg/ha. Fertilizer : In rich soils, or soils where you applied  farm yard manure , you can use an all-purpose light fertilizer like NPK 5:5:5, NPK 10:10:10, NPK 12:12:12. In infertile soils, you can use NPK 15:15:15, NPK 17:17:17 or NPK 19:19:19. Such fertilizers with an equal NPK are intended to meet most plants general nutrients requirements throughout their growing season. Alternatively, you can use WVC, DAP. If your soils are very rich or if you have had a well fertilized crop the year before, you can do without fertilizer, just inoculate your beans as the crop will use the left over nutrients. But the best basal fertilizer for all legumes like  beans ,  groundnuts ,  soya bean