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Cucumber Cucumber Cultivation Brings Blessings in Ramadan
Entering the month of Ramadan, cucumber suri or cucumber began ogled farmers. This fruit is usually used as a favorite drink iftar and nutritious for this health began to demand. The price is relatively affordable, although in certain seasons demand is high.
Siti Aisyah is one of the cucumber cultivators in Klambir Lima Village, Hamparan Perak District. he claimed not difficult to cultivate a typical plant breaking this fast. Even the capital issued is relatively small, while the profits from the harvest is quite tempting during Ramadan.
Cucumber planting period up to 75 days harvest. Plant age 55 days of the first harvest can be done up to 20 days ahead, said Aisya when found MedanBusiness, Monday (8/7). The middle-aged woman who farms with her husband, Hamdin, cultivates cucumbers on an average land of 7 s / d 8 square meters.
In order to harvest can be done before and in the month of fasting, then planting done 55 days before entering the month of Ramadan, said the woman who is familiar called Puleh.
How to plant cucumber, said Puleh, selected seeds that have been previously dried, planted directly to the land that has been hoeed. Within seven days buds and leaves begin to appear and spread to grow bungga and pistil at four weeks of planting age. At the age of 55 days plant cucumber seeds can begin to be harvested.It depends on the rain, if it is often raining aged 50 days, the fruit can be picked, if late picked, the fruit can be broken kemasakan he said.
Regarding maintenance, for the size of land 800 m2 with the number of plants approximately 300 clumps, need ZA fertilizer as much as 7 kg for Rp 2,500 / kg, NPK 1.5 kg for Rp 8.000 / kg and urea 3 kg for Rp3.000 / kg. When the treatment is good, an average of 1 clump produces 4 pieces, he said.
Fruit sold to traders who come to the garden between Rp 1,500 to Rp 2,000 / kilo While prices on the market with a standard size of Rp 5,000 / kilo. During the first harvest on Sunday, Pulih collected approximately 100 fruit from the crops.
The first harvest of the issued capital is already profitable, says Puleh showing the money to buy seasonal cultivation of crops from fruit gatherers.
As is known, cucumber fruit is useful in preventing the incidence of gastrointestinal cancer because it is rich in provitamin A and vibatmin C. In addition to vitamins, essential minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron are also widely found in Cucumber Suri, so much favored by the Muslim community as the consumption of breaking fasting.
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