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FRUIT CROPS

Organic farming is a method of farming which avoids or largely excludes the use of harmful chemicals such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides and use of natural resources such as organic matter, minerals and microbes to maintain the environment clean, ecological balance and to provide stability to the production level without polluting soil, water and air. Organic farming system relies on large-scale application of animal wastes or farm yard manure, compost, crop rotation, crop residues, green manure, vermicompost, bio-fertilisers, VAM, bio-pesticides and biological control. The primary requirement for organic manuring sources are presented below: 

Farm yard manure

Besides FYM the following quantity of organic manures may be recommended (kg/tree)

Bio fertilizers

II VEGETABLES 

Seed treatment

Seed treatment with Trichoderma viride @ 4 g or Pseudomonas fluorescens 10 g/kg of seeds. Seed treatment with Azospirillum @ 200 g/kg of seeds. 

Nursery 

Apply 10 kg of FYM, neem cake 50 g, Azospirillum 5g, Phosphobacteria 5g and VAM 60g/m2. 

Main field

Seedling dip with Azospirillum (400 g) 

Apply Azospirillum @ 2kg, Phosphobacteria @ 2 kg and VAM @  4 kg/ha 

FYM 25 t/ha; composted coirpith 10 t/ha. 

Vermi compost @ 2 tonnes, and neem cake 500 kg/ha 

Application of Panchakavya @ 3% through irrigation water (Number of application and interval based on duration of crop) 

Foliar spray

Panchakavya @ 3% number of sprays depends on the duration of the crop. 

Moringa leaf extract @ 10% and the number of spray depends on the duration of the crop.