DRIP IRRIGATION AND FERTIGATION FOR ULTRA HIGH DENSITY CASHEW PLANTATION

摘要

The perception that cashew is a wild tree and useful for arresting soil erosion grossly underplayed its commercial importance as a highly priced confectionary nut! Because of this misconception crop management practices for cashew were never looked atseriously. Once it is realized that cashewnut has a very valuable role in trade things have changed. However, focus into Agronomy of cashew trees received very little attention. It is a tree that will grow to 10-12 years and would yield a few kilogramsof nut! The very concept of value of space and time are changing in every sphere of human activity; and more readily in crop cultivation. So we do not intend to waste space (land surface) and time (time to yield or gestation period). So at Jain Irrigation, we started questioning the traditional agronomy and are consistently coming up withalternate and more revolutionary agronomy for crop after crop. After our huge successes with Mango, Banana and Guava we chose cashew for technology up-gradation. The result is ultra high density cashew plantation.