Vegetables special is a micronutrient formulation developed at Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR), Bangalore for combating the deficiency of micro nutrient occurring in vegetable crops.
The formulation has been found to be unique with six micro nutrients namely Zinc, Boron, Manganese, Iron, Molybdenum, Copper and three secondary nutrients such as Calcium, Magnesium and Sulfur. The vegetable special is recommended as foliar spry for all vegetables.
The spray of vegetable special is found to enhance the yield levels by at least 10 %. The most important qualitative advantage is enhancement of fruit quality.
Vegetable Special at KVK Thiruvannamalai
With a view to ensure the timely availability of the product to farmers and pave the way for horizontal spread of the technology. The technology of production of vegetable special has been acquired by KVK with the financial assistance of NABARD; Thiruvannamalai in the year 2014 and it is being produced at KVK and sold to farmers at nominal cost.
- Value addition in Fruit and vegetables.
- Preparation of Bakery products.
- Preparation of various Instant mix.