Cultivation of Red Onion

Until now, red onion farmers in Yogyakarta Special Region is always used as a seed tuber plant material. Seedlings originating from tubers, the results remain relatively unchanged with the passing of time. Increased yield can only be done by improving the technical culture, and an onion when production will decline.

To increase the productivity of onion in addition to the improvement of technical culture, farmers need to introduce high yielding varieties "TUK-TUK" that can be planted by seed. The characteristics of red onion, among others, form rounded bulbs, measures such as local onion Philippines, the color pink tubers until browned.
These onions can be planted in lowland and upland, with the optimal temperature from 25 to 32 degrees Celsius, suitable land is land that good aeration, fertile, friable, has a high organic matter, soil pH range is 5,5-6,5. As for how to grow using the earnings as follows:

Cultivation
Seedbed
Seeds or seeds should be sown in the open land to grow well, how:
1. Make beds 1m wide, 40cm-50cm high, and adjust the length of the available land.
2. Keep the distance between beds 40-50 cm.
3. Mix the soil beds with manure and 2 kg / m 2 of agricultural lime 150-200g/m2,
4. Flatten the back beds,
5. Sprinkle rice husk beds with 9-10 cm thick.
6. Roasted rice husk then left for 1 day.
7. Roll out beds, give basic fertilizer KCI: 50g/m2; SP-36: 50g/m2 and karbofuran 5g/m2 active ingredients,
8. Create a cross flow with the distance between the line and 5-10cm depth of 1 cm.
9. Sprinkle the onion seeds in the flow, as many as 150-200 seeds / plot, then cover with soil line.
10. Perform regular watering and careful to keep the humidity;
11. Sprouts will appear 5-10 HSS (Day After Semai);
12. When the rainy season should ditutp beds with plastic shield for 3-4 weeks.

Planting
1. Make the same beds, good size and treatment as nursery beds, and diaries until wet.
2. Make the planting hole with the distance in rows 5cm-10cm and 10cm row spacing;
3. Try to cut lines made the plant beds to facilitate weeding;
4. Planting the seeds that have been aged 6 weeks after the seedlings by putting the seeds into the planting hole one hole one seed;
5. Press the soil gently around the roots so that together with the soil.