Unfruitfulness in Fruit Crops: Causes and Remedies
Govind Vishwakarma*
Dept. of Horticulture, Doon (PG) College of Agriculture Science & Technology, Dehradun, Uttrakhand (248 011), India
Fathema Zaman
Dept. of Horticulture, Doon (PG) College of Agriculture Science & Technology, Dehradun, Uttrakhand (248 011), India
Etalesh Goutam
Dept. of Horticulture, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (A Central University), Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttarakhand (246 174), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Dichogamy, Fruit, Heterostyly, Unfruitfulness
Abstract
Unfruitfulness is a major problem in many fruit crops result in a huge loss to growers and make fruit cultivation less profitable. Unfruitfulness is due to lack of balance between growth and fruiting and lack of flower and poor fruit set as a result of various internal and external factors in different fruit and their cultivars. The success in fruit growing chiefly depends upon one is, knowledge of the natural habit of growth of the plant, one has to know, when the plant puts out new growth and flowers, when it ceases to grow vegetatively and mature its wood and when it takes rest, the crops or varieties should be chosen on the basis of climate and edaphic factors, with this knowledge, the grower should be able to manipulate his cultural methods and treatment in a way to make the tree fruitful.
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