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Cultivation practices of Apricot( Prunus armeniaca)
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Learn Fruit and Plantation Crop Production with Rahul
About Lesson

Climate and soil

  • Optimum growing temperature 16-320 c
  • 1800- 2000m altitude
  • 1500- 2000 mm rainfall distributed over 9 months
  • Humidity 80%
  • Ph 4.5-6
  • Fe and al abundant

 

 

 

Propagation

a) By seed

  • Seed extracted from fruit berries
  • Flowering : Aug – sep
  • Fruit matures one year after flowering
  • Floatation method
  • Plant seed in bed
  • After 30 days germination occur
  • Harden in polythene bag
  • Planted in field after a year

 

b) By cutting

  • Avoid upper tender part
  • Bottom brown stem is used
  • With healthy mother leaf and axillary bud

 

Planting

  • Pit size: 30*30*30cm
  • Sept-oct
  • Single hedge- 1.2 * 0.75 m – 10800 plants/ha
  • Double hedge- 1.35 * 0.75 m * 0.75 m – 13200 plants/ha
  • Mulching is done after planting

 

Manuring

Yield(Kg/ha)

Rate of nitrogen

Rate of Phosphorous

<3000

10 kg

60 kg

3000

8 kg

80 kg

>3000

9 kg

100 kg