Sunday, September 27, 2009

Shiv Kumar - a multi faceted personality




When everybody wants to miniature and compact every product here is a news that a farmer who has blown the miniature product into a mammoth size. Of course, you can find a lot elsewhere but this is in a small village near Mangalore where he has a small farm of 60 acres and grown a cucumber to a considerable size of 18 inches weighing to about 5 Kg 200 gms. Look for your self.

In traditional Indian vegetables like cucumber and Indian Gourds (bitter gourd, bottle gourd and ridge gourd) also, hybrids are gaining popularity. Hybrids are preferred because they are early, higher yielding and more uniform. In cucumber, the Asiatic type (green to light green 15-18 cm long) is widely grown.

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