FIELD PERFORMANCE OF HEVEA TREES RAISED THROUGH UNCONVENTIONAL NURSERY TECHNIQUES

摘要

In a study on the effect of nursery practices on growth and yield of Hevea brasiliensis trees it was observed that the field performance of bench-grafted plants is comparable to that of nursery grafted plants.The practice of high budding and different methods of deep planting had no influence on growth of budded stumps in the field.Polybag plants exhibited superiority in growth over budded stumps during the initial stages.There was no uprooting of plants irrespective of the treatments.