Agriculture in the Hills of Sikkim

acid soils average yield barley base crop buckwheat Calcium cardamom climate colour condition Crop Improvement Crop Rotation cropping patterns cropping system cultivation deep disease dose dryland economic elevation erosion essential farmers farming field Finger millet flowering fruits Gangtok germination ginger grain growing grown growth guava Gyalshing harvested high yielding varieties hybrid important India intercropping irrigation kg per hectare kharif lime loam maize mandarin Manure and Fertilizers method metres mixed crop mixed thermic family moderately monsoon mustard Namchi nitrogen nursery paddy phosphate plant nutrients ploughing potash pulses pure crop rabi crops rainfed regions relay cropped rhizome rice roots rows seed potato seed rate seedlings Sikkim slopes soil moisture Sonalika sowing sown soybean spraying suitable tartary buckwheat temperature tonnes tonnes per hectare transplanted tree triticale tubers upto vegetable weeds West District West Sikkim wheat