Production Technology of Fruit Crops (Paper Code: 17010305)

Horticulture: importance and status; fruit zones; classification of fruits based on their edible parts; dormancy, chilling requirement, heat units, juvenility; physiology of flowering and fruit-bud-differentiation.

Parthenocarpy, C/N ratio, problems of unfruitfulness, fruit development and maturity; fruit injury protection from frost, chilling injury, cold hardiness, drought and high temperature resistance

Modern propagation structures and greenhouses; Poly houses, hi-tech poly houses selection of location and site for planting an orchard, preparation of land and layout; orchard management practices, viz. training, pruning, fertilizer application, irrigation, plant protection measures, fertigation.

Methods of cultivation of temperate, sub-tropical and tropical fruits, viz. apple, pear, peach, mango, citrus, grapes, guava, sapota, ber, phalsa, pomegranate, aonla, jamun,

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Identification and description of fruits and their cultivars;

methods of plant, plant propagation with seeds, cuttings, layering and grafting; orchard layout and planting systems

demonstrations and practice of pruning and training of fruit trees; methods of irrigation and fertilizer application in fruit crops

fertigation, preparation of solution of growth regulators for propagation; application of growth regulators for improving fruit set, fruit size, quality

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Must know

1.       Amar Singh, 1986. Fruit Physiology and Production. Kalyani Publishers, Delhi.

2.       Bose, T.K, Mitra, S.K. and Sanyal, D. 2002. Fruits: Tropical and Subtropical. Vol. I and II, Nayaprakash Publications, Calcutta.