About Product:

• superior variety from pure line breeding program ensure high productivity plants.
• The pods are fleshy with good cooking quality
• the flesh turns soft and delicious with less fibre
• The pods are less seeded and delicious.
• The pods are 126 cm long, with a girth of 8.3 cm and individual fruit weight of 280 g with 70% flesh.
• It is adapted to most soil types varying from sandy loam to clay loam with good drainage.
• It yields 98 tonnes/ha. Ratoon crop can also be taken up for three years.
• Plant Type:  high productivity
• Fruit Colour:  The tree bears yellowish creamy white flowers that are bisexual with sweet fragrance.
• Temperature:  luxuriant plant growth is 25°c-35°c
• Fruit Length:  long pods of about 125-130 cm with a girth of 8.40 cm

Yield

• This basically depends on seed type/variety cultivated. The yield could be around 50 – 55 tonnes of pods per hectare (220 pods per tree per year).
• (Depending on season and cultural practice)
• depth of sowing:   Planting depth of 2.5-3cm, the seeds can also be shown in the polybag containing pot mixture and transplanted after 35-40 days of sowing.
• Days To First Harvest:   60-65 Days After Sowing

Other

• High Yielding Variety
• Category:  Vegetable Seeds
• Seed Rate:   1 – 1.5 Kg Per Acre (As Per Indian Agriculture practices)
• Seed Count:   Approx. 14 to16 Seeds Per Gram
• Spacing :   The tree every 3m rows 3m apart (As Per Our R&D Data)

Land Preparation

• Deep ploughing of the land is required for drumstick farming.
• About 20 tones of farmyard manure is incorporated per hectare at the time of the last ploughing of the land.
• For perennial cultivars, pit size of about 45×45×45 cm is dug at every 6×6 meter spacing while for annual cultivars, pits are dug at 2.5×2.5 meter spacing.
• For farming of drumstick leaves, 1.0×1.0 meter spacing can be maintained.
• Each pit is filled with a well-mixed mixture of soil, 10-15 kg FYM or compost along with 100 gm of nitrogen, 200 gm  of phosphorus and 50 gm of potassium before the onset of monsoon. 

Tips for growing Drumstick

• Soak the seeds for 24 hours and dry them in the shade before planting for early germination.
• Plant the seedlings in a big container and place it indoors for cold climate regions.
• Drumstick needs well drained soils with 6-7 ph value.
• Flowering happens once in a year or twice in a year. Pruning if left unchecked, they grow fast and reach 40 feet in a few years.
• Harvest drumstick pods when they are immature and tender, about half an inch in diameter. 
• For fresh greens, harvest young seedlings, growing tips, and young leaves. 
• For dried leaf powder, harvest older leaves.

Suitable Region/season:

• Planting is done during july to october.