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Visit a nearby village and collect information how farmers grow sugarcane, flowering plants like chrysanthemum, prime rose and vegetables like stem tubers, plump gourd (dondakaya) etc. Make a report and submit in class.

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I visited to a nearby village and collected the following information about growing of different plants from farmers.
(1) sugarcane :
(a) Farmers use stem cuttings for growing sugarcane crop.
(b) They place the stem cutting horizontally in the furrow but not upright.
(c) Shorts will start to grow from the nodes of the stem breaking through the soil to form individual sugarcane stalks.
(2) Chrysanthemum:
(a) It is grown from its seeds and also by means of cuttings.
(b) Farmes place seeds and cuttings of chrysanthemum where amount of sun.
(c) The well -draining soil is required when planting.
(d) Enough water should be given at intervals.
(3) Prime-rose :
(a) Primeroses that are healthy in appearence preferbly with unopened buds are utilised for growing.
(b) Primeroses can also be grown from seeds with an equal mixture of soil, sand peatmoss.
(c) Generally seeds are sown indoors during winter.
(d) Once seendings have obtained their second or third leaves they can be transplanted in the garden.
(e) Cuttings can also be taken from some varieties during summer to grow prime-roses.
(4) Stem tubers (Potato):
(a) They are mainly propagated by vegetative methods (cloning).
(b) Potato tubers have nodes or eyes from which new growth begins.
(c) Cegetative seed can be either a whole tuber or cut tuber.
(d) Most potato cultivating farers produce tubers. Each tuber contain several eyes, tuber with eye cut and sow in soil.
(5) Plumpgourd ( Dondakaya):
(a) Farmers usually sow seeds of plump gourd to grow a new crop.
(b) Stem cuttings are also being used by farmers to grow plumpgourd crop.
(c) First they dig the soil to make burrows. Moist the furrow before planting the stem cutting upright.
(d) A fter 35 to 45 days lateral buds begin to grow from the nodes of stem cuttings .
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