Practice Name:

Inducing Fruiting in Male Papaya Trees

Details
Category	Crop Pest & Disease Management
Crop	Papaya
Crop Family	Caricaceae
Scientific Name	(Carica papaya)
Vernacular Name	Papita
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Nails made from bamboo splints.
Details of Innovation	Many farmers of Mavli Tehsil do not remove male trees of Papaya. They drive two to five small nails made by bamboo splits in the basal portion at a height of about 50 cm of the stems of male trees. This is said to be good for induction of fruiting even in the male papayas. A similar practice was reported in HB 6(2):12 to make coconut trees bear fruits: Ed. Range Forest Officer, Aravalli Afforestation Project, Jhadol, Udaipur district, Rajasthan.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Documented by Satish Kumar Sharma
District	Udaipur
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Badgaon, Distt. Udaipur-313001
Address	Vill: Jhadol
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Rajasthan
PIN Code	313001

PAS_1	"Excessive vegetativegrowth adversely affects fruit setting while excessive fruit load reduces development of treecanopy. Skillful orchard management at this stage includes maintenance of optimum number of bearing branches as per the nutritional status and health of plant. Young trees tends to have more vegetative growth, therefore, it has been observed that sometimes fruit production is suppressed by excessive vegetative flushing, particularly during autumn. Therefore, effective measures like ringing, girdling, fostering of winter shoots, use of paclobutrazol, etc. can be applied for proportional crop production." http://tmnehs.gov.in/writereaddata/Chap-8.pdf
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Northern Plain (And Central Highlands) Including Aravallis, Hot Semi-Arid Eco-Region (4.2) Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Central Plateau & Hills Region (VIII) Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Sub Humid Southern Plain Zone (RJ-7)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0020000000376
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/140
State	Rajasthan
PIN Code	313001