An experiment was carried out during 1997 to 2002 succeeding six ginger crop seasons at
Kapurkot, Salyan to assess the effect of continuous ginger cropping and different cropping
sequences on ginger yield and rhizome rot severity. Experiment was conducted under rainfed
south faced mid hill conditions ( 1500 m a s 1). Recommended package of practices for
individual crop production were followed. Among the different cropping sequences tested
maize- to ria :pole bean- tori a : ginger in first three years and repeated same sequence in the
second three years cycle was found to be mosi sustainable cropping pattern with highest
ginger rhizome yield at the end of second cycle (35.8 t/ha) followed by ginger yield at second
cycle (34.1 t/ha) when Soybean - wheat :finger millet : ginger , three years cropping
pattern adopted. Rhizomes yields obtained at 6'1
' years from above cropping pattern were
significantly higher than continuous sole ginger cropped up 'to the 6'11 year (9.8 tllza). These
two cropping sequences gave highest net return Rs. 114,400 and 100,800/ha respectively and
also were found effective in reducing rhizome rot disease severity (25.9 to 26.0%) compared
to continuous ginger cropping (50.9 %). The long-temr experiment results revealed that
growing either Pole· bean- tori a or finger millet prior to ginger crop in three-year ginger
based cropping sequei1ce was found appropriate for sustainable ginger production in
Kapurkot agro-climatic conditions.

An experiment was carried out during 1997 to 2002 succeeding six ginger crop seasons at
Kapurkot, Salyan to assess the effect of continuous ginger cropping and different cropping
sequences on ginger yield and rhizome rot severity. Experiment was conducted under rainfed
south faced mid hill conditions ( 1500 m a s 1). Recommended package of practices for
individual crop production were followed. Among the different cropping sequences tested
maize- to ria :pole bean- tori a : ginger in first three years and repeated same sequence in the
second three years cycle was found to be mosi sustainable cropping pattern with highest
ginger rhizome yield at the end of second cycle (35.8 t/ha) followed by ginger yield at second
cycle (34.1 t/ha) when Soybean - wheat :finger millet : ginger , three years cropping
pattern adopted. Rhizomes yields obtained at 6'1
' years from above cropping pattern were
significantly higher than continuous sole ginger cropped up 'to the 6'11 year (9.8 tllza). These
two cropping sequences gave highest net return Rs. 114,400 and 100,800/ha respectively and
also were found effective in reducing rhizome rot disease severity (25.9 to 26.0%) compared
to continuous ginger cropping (50.9 %). The long-temr experiment results revealed that
growing either Pole· bean- tori a or finger millet prior to ginger crop in three-year ginger
based cropping sequei1ce was found appropriate for sustainable ginger production in
Kapurkot agro-climatic conditions.