India: Kerala University cucumber produces higher yields
T. Pradeepkumar, a professor at the KAU, has indigenously developed the cucumber hybrid KPCH-1.
T.K. Suresh Babu of Peringottukara, a small hamlet in Thrissur, is a pioneer vegetable farmer, who has been successful in cultivating chilli and cucumber in poly houses for the past six years, even before the government announced freebies for popularising poly house cultivation in the State.
“I tried the imported cucumber hybrid ‘Socrates’ for some of my poly houses. But it failed to give the expected yield. On the other hand, the poly houses in which I grew KPCH-1 hybrid from the KAU gave excellent results.” The success has inspired Mr. Suresh Babu to popularise the KAU hybrid and he voluntarily distributes the seeds to friends and relatives.
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