Nursery Production and Orchard Management: Vol. 1: Allied Fields

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Graft incompatibility in fruit crops. 2. High density planting in fruit crops: trends and prospects. 3. Intercropping management in orchards. 4. Water conservation in orchards. 5. Water management in fruit crops. 6. Weed management in orchards. 7. Nutrient management in fruit crops. 8. Balanced fertilization in fruit crops and modes of nutrient supply. 9. Insect pest management in fruit nurseries. 10. Management of nursery diseases of fruit crops. 11. Nematode management in fruit nurseries. 12. Drip irrigation in orchard management. 13. Micropropagation for production of disease free elite fruit plants. 14. Machinery for nursery and orchard management. 15. Mechanized grafting in horticultural crops. 16. Nursery accreditation: its importance, national status and nursery quarantine. 17. Intelligent technologies in orchard management: applications and challenges. 18. Use of drones in orchard management. 19. Fruit based agroforestry systems, carbon sequestration and policy perspective. 20. Reimagining a paradigm shift in Indian agriculture through natural farming. Index.

Nursery production practices and orchard management including canopy manipulation is essential to achieve optimum productivity with production of high quality fruits. The Government of India has started a national programme to supply clean planting material to the fruit growers and provided sufficient logistic support and financial assistance with the aim to provide disease free true-to-type high quality planting material. On the other hand, the orchard management is interdependent subject where associated allied fields play an important role to produce competitive products with desired quality traits. The allied areas like incompatibility of scion and rootstock, inter-cropping in orchards, high density planting, nutrient, weed and water management, soil water conservation, drip irrigation, plant protection measures, mechanised grafting, suitable machinery for orchards, nursery accreditation and quarantine, biotechnological and tissue culture techniques, artificial intelligence, drones, horti-silviculture systems, natural fruit growing, are the major keys in nursery production, canopy and orchard management. The first volume of this book exclusively deals with these fields for the successful and economically sustainable fruit production.