questions: asking for the sowing time along with the manures and fertilizer dose for pointed gourd cultivation in a land of 1 bigha. 
 answers: replied that the appropriate sowing time for assam condition is january-february and 17, 33, 8 and 300 kilo grams of urea, ssp, mop and fym respectively has been suggested as manures and fertilizer dose for pointed gourd cultivation in a land of 1 bigha.