Beans with Modern Cultivation Techniques

Bean plants is one of the vegetable protein source that is easily developed and inexpensive. Bean plants is one vegetable that is widely used as a food ingredient.

Terms growing bean plants are beans grow best at an altitude of 1000 - 1500 m asl, with rainfall of 1500-2500 mm / year. While The temperature is 20 0C - 25 0C and air humidity is ± 55%. While the soil pH is 5.5 to 6

Technical Bean Cultivation Are:

Preparation of Seeds
Terms of bean seeds used to grow seedlings is to have high power, high yielding, shape intact, pithy, and free of pests and diseases.

Land Preparation
Land preparation can be done by clearing the land by hand of uprooting weeds or grass by hand and hoe. Then made beds with a length of about 5 meters, 1 meter wide and 30 cm high with a distance of beds 40-50 cm.

Planting
Planting on bean plants is done by the drill, then the seed is inserted into the planting hole. Spacing that is used is 20 cm x 50 cm or 20 cm x 40 cm, while the depth of the planting hole is approximately 4-6 cm.

Maintenance
Maintenance performed on bean plants are stitching, pengguludan, trimming, watering, irrigation, fertilization, and pest and disease control.

Stitching is done to replace the bean plants were dead or abnormal growth with new plants, usually done one week after planting.

Pengguludan to elevate the ridges at the time of chickpeas aged 20-40 days. While pruning is done only during the formation of tendrils, usually when 2 and 5 MST MST.

Watering is done during the 20-day-old bean. Watering is done every day so that the soil moisture is maintained.

Fertilization is done at the time of bean plants aged 2 and 4 MST MST. Dose of fertilizer are used when bean plants were 2 MST is urea fertilizer by 62 kg / ha / planting + KCl as much as 45 kg / ha / growing season. While the dose of fertilizer used during old bean plants 4 MST is urea fertilizer as much as 62 kg / ha / planting + KCl as much as 45 kg / ha / growing season.

Pest and disease control is done with the use of insecticides, fungicides, crop rotation with non-host plants, as well as cutting the plants to disease. Pests are often attacked bean plants are leaf beetle, aphids, caterpillars span apparent, and leaf roller caterpillars. While the disease often attacks the bean plants are anthracnose, powdery mildew disease, wilt, leaf spot disease, leaf blight, soft rot, rust disease, a disease damping off, and the disease curly ends.

Harvest and Post-Harvest
Bean plants harvested at the age of 60 days by the way pluck USING hand, which is rather light-colored pods somewhat rough skin and seeds and pods not prominent. Once harvested bean plants can be stored in a cool place and bean plants are ready to be consumed and marketed. The process of harvesting the bean crop is done gradually, and the harvest is stopped when the bean plants older than 80 days or after 7 seasons.