Practice Name:

Prevention from Premature Dropping of Coconut Fruits

Details
Category	Crop Production
Crop	Coconut
Crop Family	Arecaceae
Scientific Name	(Cocos nucifera)
Vernacular Name	Nariyeli tree
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Tender branches of betel nut (Areca catechu)
Details of Innovation	One of the common problems faced by coconut (Cocos nucifera) growers is that a number of small-sized fruits drop off the tree prematurely, causing even fully grown trees to provide reduced yield. Shridutt of Karnataka has adopted a simple, cheap and environment friendly method to combat this problem. First of all, Shridutt identifies the trees in which this problem exists. Then, he gets about 20-25 tender branches of the betel nut (Areca catechu) tree and cuts them into small pieces. He spreads these pieces near the root of the coconut (Cocos nucifera) tree. This method can be tried in the third week of August with very good results. According to Shridutt, before he adopted this method, his 30-35 year old trees gave a yield of only about thirty fruits. This has changed to 125 to 150 fruits per tree ever since he began to use the new technique.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Shri Datt
District	Shimoga
KVK District	KrishiVignan Kendra, Navile, Shimoga -577 204
Address	Shimoga Karnataka
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577201

PAS_1	https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/48714/mono101.pdf
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Western Ghats And Coastal Plain, Hot Humid region (19.2), Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) West coast plains and Ghat region (XII) Southern plateau and Hills region (X), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Nothern transition zone (KA-8) Hilly zone (KA-9)
Other Community Practices	https://www.coconutboard.in/images/icj-2019-07.pdf
Practice ID	DTP0010000002754
Reference	lok (2) 4, Jul- Aug- 1997, Pg No. 10
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/397
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577201