February Planting: Farmers Can Reap High Profits with Early Vegetable Crops

• February is the ideal month for farmers to plant early vegetables like okra, cucumber, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, and brinjal for high market prices.
• Proper field preparation involves deep plowing, adding 10 tons of cow dung manure/vermicompost per acre, and leveling the soil.
• Specific planting techniques are recommended: soaking okra seeds, cultivating cucumbers on beds, using pits for bottle gourd, and scratching bitter gourd seeds.
• Trellis methods for bottle gourd and bitter gourd improve fruit quality and size, leading to better market prices.
• Transplant brinjal seedlings in the second week of February, apply nitrogen and phosphorus, and use neem oil or sticky traps for pest control.