Moringa World Superior PKM1 Variety for Cultivation
1. Germination : 95%
2. Packing : Plastic bags
3. HS code : 120991
Advantages of Our seeds :
- Seed propagated
- Annual in habit and bushy in growth.
- Precocious bearing-within eight months
- High productivity (250-350 fruits / tree / year)
- Spread harvest (4 months) -Better prices
- Pods green and fleshy and non-bitter.
- Uniform fruit length (1mt) -Easy packing.
- Pods non-fibrous and seeds soft even in late harvests.
- Seeds non-bitter unlike perennial types.
- Long shelf life (10-12 days) at room temperature.
- Minimal pod damage in transit due to rubbery texture.
- Amenable for intercropping in young orchards
- Suitable for alley cropping (vegetables and pulses)
- Amenable for ratooning twice.
- Low cost of production
- Free from hairy caterpillar and gumming.
- Soil enrichment through leaf litter-Better successive crops.
- Suitable for oil extraction (30-35% )
Plant Protection -Pests
Fruit Fly
Spray dichlorvos(1ml/lit) of fenthion1.5ml/lit to control fruit flies when pods are about 20-30 days old. Rake the soil after applying lindane 1.3 at 25 kg/ha
Bud worm, leaf caterpillar and leaf webber: Dust carbary 10 D at 25 kg/ha or spray carbarly 50WP @ g/lit
Hairy caterpillar
1. Use flame torch when the caterpillars settle on the tree trunk
2. Spray chlorpyriphos 20 EC or quinalphos 25Ec @2ml/lit.
Ratoon Crop
Cut back the trees at 90cm From Ground level after the harvest is over. In years. Apply the fertilizer dose of 45:15:30 g NPK/Plant, within a week after cutting back along with 25 kg of FYM or compost every year
Yield
50-55 tonnes of podes/ha (220 pods/tree/year).
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