National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Water chestnut is an important high value aquatic crop grown in India. Of late the importance of this crop has been increasing due to the presence of appreciable amount of nutritional contents therein like protein, carbohydrates, fiber and minerals. This paper explores the recent agronomic management techniques and post-harvest utilization of water chestnut crop. Being a short duration annual crop, it can be introduced in low-input cropping systems as a viable alternative crop for sustainable horticulture. Water chestnut production is mainly constrained by lack of knowledge on agronomic practices, deficiency of technical know-how about its processing and lack of mass awareness about its high nutritional values. These days, field cultivation of this crop is also proving to be profitable. Hence, attempts are being undertaken to integrate it with field crops. Improved genotypes namely Bihar Large Red, Green Spineless and Balasore Green have been found to perform the best under field cultivation. Planting distance of 1m x 2m with application of NPK @ 60:40:30 kg/ha in split applications have witnessed a yield of as much as 12.0 t/ha. Being a high value cash crop, it can be sold as the fresh produce; better income however can be secured by selling value added products of water chestnut like dry nut and flour. Cultivated with right agronomic techniques and processed appropriately after harvest, water chestnut crop can significantly improve the livelihood of farmers living in water surplus regions of rural India.
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