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Rejuvenation of old and uneconomical ber trees and its effect on growth, yield and fruit quality under rainfed conditions of western India

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Title Rejuvenation of old and uneconomical ber trees and its effect on growth, yield and fruit quality under rainfed conditions of western India
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Creator Akath Singh
P.R. Meghwal
Anurag Saxena
B.R. Morwal
 
Subject Ber
fruit quality
growth
rejuvenation
yield
 
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A study was conducted to rejuvenate a 33-year-old orchard of ber under rainfed conditions during 2011-12.
Trees were headed back from ground level and newly emerged shoots were budded with early, mid and late
season cultivars, i.e. Gola, Seb and Umran, respectively under two alley spacings, i.e. 6 and 12 m, keeping
plant to plant spacing in both the alleys at 6 m. Tree height and stem diameter were recorded higher under
closer spacing, whereas, tree spread were recorded maximum in wider spacing of ber alleys. Within three
years of rejuvenation, trees attained good canopy and was slightly higher in 6 m × 12 m spacing in all the
cultivars. Though the trees started fruiting in the same year after rejuvenation but the yield was negligible but
it increased remarkably during third year. The variety Gola recorded 3.55 times higher yield (36.4 kg tree-1)
compared to yield level just before the process of rejuvenation. Higher percentage (80) of ‘A’ grade fruit was
obtained in Umran followed by Gola (78%) and Seb (72%). The morphological attributes of fruit obtained from
rejuvenated trees were significantly higher than non-rejuvenated trees of each cultivar. The chemical attributes,
i.e. TSS, TSS:acid ratio and total sugars were found slightly higher in fruits from non-rejuvenated trees. Hence,
rejuvenation technology helped in restoring the productivity of old, unproductive and seedling orchards in
shortest possible time.
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Date 2019-05-14T11:48:33Z
2019-05-14T11:48:33Z
2015-12-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/19480
 
Language English
 
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