Orchard Management

EXERCISE 16

EXERCISE 16: VISIT TO DIFFERENT FRUIT ORCHARDS

“Seeing is believing-

Learning by doing”

Aims:

• To acquire practical knowledge on systems of planting and orchard floor management practices being followed by the farmers.
• Students/farmers interaction on production systems of important crops of the region.

In these practicals, students shall be taken to the fruit orchards of progressive fruit growers. They will be given practical knowledge about management practices being followed by the farmers developed by the Universities and other research institutes on scientific lines. Students will interact with the farmers about adoption developed technologies on fruit production, economic feasibility of different production systems, difficulties if any faced by the farmers in adopting the developed technologies and acquire knowledge about marketing systems.

Students shall also be involved in demonstrating and/disseminating recently developed technologies by the universities and other research centres.

Observations: Record the following observations on the farmers’ orchards:

• Name of the farmer/orchardist
• Land holding
• Kind of fruit crops being raised
• Planting distance
• Type of management practices being followed
• Number of trees of different fruit crops
• Annual crop yield
• Net return

Based on the above observations, draw your inference.