Weeding

• Remove weeds by hand weeding before each mulching.
• Repeat weeding according to weed growth during the fifth and sixth month after planting.
• Earth up the crop during the first mulching and avoid water stagnation.

Mulching

• Immediately after planting, mulch the beds thickly with green leaves @ 15 t ha-1.
• Repeat mulching with green leaves twice @ 7.5 t/ha first 44-60 days and second 90-120 days after planting.
• Grow green manure crops like daincha and sun hemp in the interspaces of beds, along with ginger and harvest the green manure crop during second mulching of ginger beds.
• Application of dried coconut leaves as mulch in ginger beds after removing the petiole at the time of planting is also recommended.
• Dried coconut leaves after removing the petiole, split into two at midrib @ 8 kg/ 3 x1 m/ bed or 5400 kg ha-1 for effective weed control in ginger.
• Subsequent application of green leaf at 45 & 90 Days after Planting is not required.
• This environment friendly technology recorded 87% weed control efficiency, less incidence of soft rot incidence (8.7%) with a B:C ratio 1.97 compared to unweeded control with no mulching.