Vol. 4 (1) : January-February 2013 issue
Green Farming Vol. 4 (1) : 58-61 (January-February, 2013)
Studies on the effect of pruning on fruit setting, yield & quality of mango cv. Alphonso
S.L. GHAVALE1*, K.H. PUJARI2, P.C. HALDAVANEKAR3 and N.B. GOKHALE4
Department of Horticulture, DBS Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, Dist Ratnagiri 415 712 (M.S.)
Designation : 1P.G. Student *(sunillg72@gmail.com), 2Prof. Hortic. & Assoc. Dean, 3Associate Professor, 4Incaharge Biotechnological Unit
Subject : Agronomy and Crop Production
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Total Pages : 4
Received : 05 July 2012
Revised accepted : 08 November 2012
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Citation :
S.L. GHAVALE, K.H. PUJARI, P.C. HALDAVANEKAR and N.B. GOKHALE. 2013. Studies on the effect of pruning on fruit setting, yield & quality of mango cv. Alphonso. Green Farming Vol. 4 (1) : 58-61 ; January-February, 2013
ABSTRACT
An investigation on studies on the effect of pruning on fruit setting, yield and quality of mango cv. Alphonso was undertaken in the Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Dr. B.S.K. Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli. Dist. Ratnagiri during the year 2009-2010. The experiment was carried out in FRBD design with three replications, seven treatments and the three pruning methods. The results reveal that pruning the tree on past season growth wood (M3 method) increases early emergence, more numbers of vegetative shoot and higher shoot length and girth. This is useful to regain the vegetative growth when the tree gets exhausted due to higher yields, while that of pruning on current season shoots (M1 method) in the first and third week of October resulted in the early emergence of inflorescence, flowering, better fruit set and yield. Besides, the pruning on 50% current season shoots (M2 method) showed better results.
Key words :
Alphonso mango, Flowering, Fruit setting, Fruit yield, Mangifera indica, Pruning effect.
