Cultivation of Onions

Garlic is a second crop, which is used almost every day in the diet of Tanzanian families. East Africa, and Worldwide.

Onions contain a large role in the use of vegetables especially for the urban population. Garlic is used in making salad, link vegetables, meat and fish. The leaves of the onion is used as a vegetable. Garlic is also used to make soup, etc.

Type farming Onions

• Cultivation of onions can be done in two
• Green House field
• Cultivation of onion Green House
• Cultivation of onions in the field of the ordinary.

Key requirements in their produce of onion

Onion crop grows well in areas without a lot of rain, a relatively cool in summer and non-heat with heat exhaustion of the mold during the garlic matures.

Onion crop grows well in fertile soils enough. Clay allow roots to penetrate easily, you have moisture reserves such as clay loam.

Preparing the field

Farm should be prepared part of which you have elevation, partly clear that the not cultivated

garlic for 2 -3 years. the farm should be near a water source for

irrigation. Terraces 1m x 3m or pouches of 2mx 3m is better for seedlings. three or

make easy pouches irrigation, weeding and spraying.

Planting the seeds of onions

Seeds can be planted in a row or broadcast in the embankment of the nursery. In row planting, seeds are planted in the space of 10 to 15 cm between rows. After planting, the seeds are covered with soil and mulch later to set up the embankment. Once the seeds germinate, mulch should be removed and the grass instead gallery to be built in order to impose shadow young plants. Seeds germinate in 7 to 10 days.

Care of the Garden of garlic

Green House

Onion crop needs sufficient water throughout the plant growth and especially the adoption of the bulb. In the period without any rain (May to August) Irrigation should be carried out once a week to clay loam and onions are sown in pouches. In order to accelerate the maturity of the onion is advised to reduce the amount of water to irrigate their best procedures constitutes grows.

It is also good to stop watering early four to six weeks before harvesting. For the full term of maturity and harvest the onion is 90 to 150 days depending on the variety. Controlling weeds and soil fertilizing their non Onion is able to compete with weeds.

 Weeds causes a decrease in the size of the onion, spread disease and cause retardation garlic. In the garden of onions, weeds can be delivered to paddle, thin hand and using chemicals to kill weeds.

irrigation

If you remove weeds  avoid deep plowing in order to not damage the root and onion itself, since the roots of onions exist on very high. Fertilizing the soil on the stems of garlic is an important step to avoid garlic burn from sun. Make sure your garlic stems into the soil as 5 cm There are also a variety of onion that produces or hoist its bulb above the soil during grows larger. So fertilizing the soil to cover the bulb is very important.

Weather and water

Weather and water are very important factors to consider in the production of onions.

Onions flourish well in dry conditions with irrigation. Waterlogged especially

while the latter leads to many diseases, especially fog, can not mature onions

well, causing massive crop losses. Sunny and dry weather is a very important time

ripening and harvesting onions.

Types of garlic

The best kind of garlic include Mang'ola red, Red creole and Bombay Red. These are the seeds that offer better yields per hectare from 40-60kgs. if farming shall be entertained. A farmer can choose seeds based on: -

Market demand (red onions are the most popular)

Planting season

Ability to bear much fruit

The ability of onions stored for a long time.

improved seeds

The quality of seed is very important because they are the source of a good crop. Offers excellent database and produce healthy seedlings yield and quality. Seeds of garlic loses its vegetation quickly after harvest (1y). The good seed are the following features: -

Germination more than 80%

Seeds do not contain fresh and mixed

Fitted well in containers airtight and moisture.

So the farmer buy seeds of onion consider the following:

• The source of seed
• Date of production
• Date of expiration
•  Package of seeds.

It is recommended not to sow farmer containing more than one year old

Best onion seeds are sold by private companies as:

ALPHA Seed Co, Popvriend,

Rotian Seed,

Kibo Seed,

East African Seed Company etc.

Supplier of seeds include TFA stores, shops for agricultural inputs in different stores.