establishing a hoticultural nursery is easy

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ESTABLISHING A HOTICULTURAL

NURSERY IS EASY

S.ESWARA REDDY

Setting up of a fruit nursery is a long term venture and needs

lot of planning and expertise. Mistakes committed initially on any aspect

like selection of soil, raising of right kind of cultivars/varieties, plant

protection measure, etc., reduce the financial returns greatly form the

investment, besides wastage of time and energy.

So, careful planning is needed before setting up a

nursery. The plan should show allocation of plots/area to different

components of the nursery such as mother plants of different

fruits/cultivars, rootstocks, roads/paths, water channels, drainage system,

buildings/other structures, etc. Provision of certain basic pre-requisites is a must

for raising a fruit nursery on modern lines.

The vegetative propagation of fruit crops makes them vulnerable to

transmission of several diseases and pests through the plant material. Thus, importance oftesting of material in the process of its preparation at various stages needs due attentions.

The large quantity of planting material required to meet the demands of

farmers/orchardists in the coming years needs coordinated approach fromdifferent ICAR Institutes, State Agricultural Universities and State Horticulture

Departments.

The targets of the enhancing fruit production in the coming years will beachieved only through production and distribution of healthy, genuine and

high quality planting material of commercial/improved varieties of fruit crops in

sufficient quantities. The maintenance of purity is easy in vegetatively propagated crops

PROGENY TREES/MOTHER PLANTS

The bud sticks/graft wood should always be taken from healthy and true to type

progeny trees of commercial/new varieties, which are free from viruses, disease and pest

occurrence. A nurseryman should have progeny trees of all the promising cultivars

of fruits that can be grown in that particular area.

Criteria for selection of mother plants

Mother plants of the variety should be genetically true to type.


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The plants should be healthy and free from any diseases, pest infestations

and physiological disorders.

The plants should have known pedigree records regarding bearing potential, fruitquality ..

The plants should be precocious and prolific bearers.

Criteria for selection of rootstocks

i) Dwarfing /semi-dwarfingii) Compatibility with the known commercial variety

iii) Resistance/tolerance to biotic and a biotic stresses.Let us know aboutmango nursery.

MANGO VARITIES OF COMMERCE

North India :

Dashehari, Langra, S.B. Chausa, Lucknow Safeda,Ratol, Gaurjeet, Bombay Green, Khasul Khas

South India :Neelum, Banglora, Mulgoa, Suvaranarekha, Banganpalli,Rumani, Raspuri, Badami

East India:Malda, Fazli, Himsagar, Kishenbhog, Gulabkhas, Jardalu

West India:Alphonso, Pairi, Malkurad, Kesar, Rajapuri, Jamadar

Improved varieties

: Amrapali, Mallika, Ambika, Arka Anmol, Arka Aruna,Arka Neelkiran, Arka Puneet, Alfazli, AU Rumani,

Ratna, Sindhu, Pusa Arunima

Raising of rootstocks

Mango seedlings grown from stones of seedling trees are used as

rootstocks. Stones should be collected from vigorous, disease free and

high yielding trees of seedling mangoes during July-August. Mango seedsare recalcitrant and lose viability very soon on desiccation. If the mango

stones are not sown within a few days of their removal from the fruit,

they can be stored under moist


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condition in shade, covering with moist soil, sand or sawdust, etc.

Before sowing stones should be immersed in water and floating stones

should be discarded as they are not considered viable.

Stones are sown during June to August, depending upon theripening season of the mango, in beds mixed with well decomposed farm

yard manure at the rate of 8tonnes per hectare. When the seedlings

attain the age of 2-3 months, they should be transplanted in well preparedbeds or poly bags.

After transplanting, proper care should be exercised in

irrigating the young transplanted seedlings. Attack of leaf cuttinginsects is common during rainy season, which may affect the growth of

the seedlings adversely.

Care should be taken well in advance for their control before damage.

In frost prone areas, the rootstocks should also be protected from frost bythatching. Plant is allowed to grow as a single stem for six to eight

months. When the plant attains pencil thickness or a little more, it is

ready for grafting.choose appropriate method of grafting for higher successrate.

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20th june 2011
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