Intensive Cultivation of Mango Using Ultra-High Density Planting (UHDP), and Drip and Fertigation Technologies for Higher Productivity | Chapter 7 | Research Advances and Challenges in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 1

 Chance of arable land for reaching mango cultivation has been a disadvantage over the years. Seeing the continual increase in human state and land use pressure in the country, there is restricted scope to expand the region. India has the largest extent under Mango crop; however the productivity is individual of lowest with the mango growing countries. The reasons for depressed yields are many: large number doddering orchards, traditional forms of cultivation, mainly rain-fed or with sporadic flow irrigation all the while fruit development, weak attention to the baldachin, nutrition, pest and afflictions, and lack of use of Good Land Practices (GAP), lack of awareness between farmers of up-to-date techniques like  calculating-irrigation and fertigation, Integrated  Blight Management (IPM), Joined Nutrition Management (INM), and up-to-date post-harvest management systems. The observations and the results of experiments carried out have proved that to get best benefits of UHDP in several mango cultivars, the strict devotion to the following important facets of practices are required. The Research and Development group of Jain Irrigation completed activity a number of field trials, accompanying high and extreme-high density estate techniques in mango and reliable to determine, irrigation and manure requirement utilizing drip technology and established the results of soil and leaf analysis for focus yields, and crop regulation by optimum awning management and use of Placobutrazol (PBZ) for early uniform and balanced flowering. They understood, IPM, Global-GAP and patterned, a package of practices for mango cultivars, under extreme density (4.5 m X 4.5 m) and ultra- extreme density mango (3 m X 2 m). The composite mango result technology thus grown over a period of 14 age in the R,D&D farm of JISL is now extended to many growers in the country.The mango yields raised two to three times, the maturation period for the  first harvest was reduced to  three to four  age, the quality of crops were good for export  and develop was regular even  in lacking-bearing  cultivars like Alphonso and Himampasand. JISL is the only organization in the country that has invested completely a large funds and backed its research and enlargement team in educating laborers in improved agro-methods and expose them to most recent technologies.

Author(s) Details:

P. Soman,
Research, Development and Demonstration Farms, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., Udumalpet, Tirupur District, Tamil Nadu-642 154, India.

A. U. Chaudhari,
Research, Development and Demonstration Farms, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., Udumalpet, Tirupur District, Tamil Nadu-642 154, India.

B. Krishna,
Research, Development and Demonstration Farms, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., Udumalpet, Tirupur District, Tamil Nadu-642 154, India.

V. R. Balasubramanyam,
Research, Development and Demonstration Farms, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., Udumalpet, Tirupur District, Tamil Nadu-642 154, India.

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