Expert Advisory Details

This is how fruit plants to protect from intense heat

FRUITS: To protect the fruit pants from the summer heat, apply light irrigations at regular intervals, especially to citrus, pear, litchi, and mango orchards bearing fruit in this season. Whitewash mixture can be applied on the main trunks of the fruit trees to protect them from intense heat. Thatches or coverings can be erected to save the young fruit plants from intense heat with straw of datepalm leaves. Apply frequent watering to young as well as nursery plants also.

• Paddy straw mulching in guava orchards can be done this month to suppress weeds and to conserve water. Before mulching apply recommended dose of inorganic fertilizers to plants.
• Avoid cultivation of orchard soil in this month except guava and ber orchards. Integrated weed management practices can be adopted to supress the weed growth.