The average productivity of cashew in the country is around 860kg/ha. In contrast, potentiality of yield is around 2000 kg/ha if proper new technologies are adopted. These things have been very well proved in demonstration plots of Research Stations as well as in some of the innovative farmer's orchards. In spite of already available scientific practices in our country, yield are low. Main causes of low yield are as followsSenile and seedling origin plantations of non-descript types with low yield. This situation is mostly existing in cashew plantations under government owned Cashew Corporations and Forest CorporationsThe land which is not suitable for other plantation crops are only available to cashew crop. Hence, the land which is available for cashew is usually eroded and degraded lands with poor soil fertilityPlantations are raised without input and plant protection measuresLack of awareness among the farmers on the latest production technologies.
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