Agriculture Extension Balochistan - Spinach

Address: Directorate General Agriculture Extension Near Sariab Police station Sariab Road Quetta.
Email: <a href="mailto:dgaebalochistan2020@gmail.com">dgaebalochistan2020@gmail.com
Phone: 081-92115300

Crop Detail Spinach is an edible flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae native to central and western Asia. Its leaves are eaten as a vegetable. It is an annual plant (rarely biennial) growing as tall as 30 cm (1 ft). Spinach may survive over winter in temperate regions. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular, and very variable in size from about 2-30 cm (1-12 in) long and 1-15 cm (0.4-5.9) broad, with larger leaves at the base of the plant and small leaves higher on the flowering stem. The flowers are inconspicuous, yellow green, 3-4 mm (0.1-0.2) in diameter, maturing into a small, hard, dry, lumpy fruit cluster 5-10 mm (0.2-0.4 in) across containing several seeds. Spinach is originated in ancient Persia (modern Iran and neighboring countries). It is not known by whom, or when, spinach was introduced to India, but the plant was subsequently introduced to ancient China, where it was known as "Persian vegetable". The earliest available record of the spinach plant was recorded in Chinese, stating it was introduced into China via Nepal (probably in 647 AD).
Major/Minor	Major
Temporary/Permanent	Temporary
Category	Agriculture Extension
Type	Vegetables
Climate	Temperate
Water Method	Irrigated
Duration	Biennial
Economic Type	Food Crop
Growing Season	Rabi / Winter / Cold Crops

heterosporium spot Blight (Late+early) white rust carpospores spot cucumber mosaic virus fusarium wilt bacterial soft rot Downy Mildew

insed SHEPHERDS-PURSE LONDON ROCKET CHICKWEED LITTLE MALLOW BURNING NETTLE

drying of spinach over a night Drying of seedlings leaves.

worms flies Aphids Leaf Miner Mite Leaf Eating Caterpillar

Bacterial Leaf Spot

Name	Seed Rate
LOCAL SINDHI	8-10 kg per acre
PRICKLY SEEDED	8-10 kg per acre