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Promotion of off-season vegetable cultivation 

Technology demonstration on production of healthy seedlings of solanaceous vegetables on solarized soil, initially started with individual farmers has now been taken up on community basis by the farmers’ groups in different villages in Ranchi . With each community nursery growing approx 2 lakh seedlings, an additional income of Rs. 20000/- was generated in three months leading to promotion of ‘nursery raising’ as self-help-group based micro-enterprises. Adoption of wilt resistant varieties of brinjal and tomato helped the farmers in early transplanting of the seedlings in the field during rainy season. This in turn has helped in generating more income per unit area (approximately 167.8 and 228.8% increase in income over traditional varieties).