Question: asking about the fertilizer dose and varieties of bottle gourd.
Answer: advised him to apply urea 14 kg, ssp 32 kg., mop 10 kg per bigha. apply hakf of urea, full ssp, full mop at the time of last land preparation. apply remaining half urea after 30 days of sowing. some varieties of bottle gourd are pusa summer prolific long, pusa summer prolific round, pusa meghdoot, pusa manjuri. etc.