Fertiliser
trials in coconut have revealed that application of 0.50, 0.32 and 1.2 kg
NPK, respectively per palm per year along with 25 kg green leaf and 10 kg
FYM increases the yield upto 67 per cent.
Intercropping
does not adversely affect the coconut yield. Weed management recommendation
involving herbicides given. A nursery technique has been developed for raising
coconut seedlings in polybags. Polybag seedlings are vigorous in growth and
establish fast when transplanted in the field.
Irrigation
@ 40 litre/palm/week during the summer months will increase the yield of nuts
by 50 per cent.
The
possible role of insects and pathogens on the shedding of buttons in coconut
has been established and remedy suggested. Sevin 0.2% gave the best control
of coried bug infesting coconuts.
Neem
cake @ 5 kg/palm/year plus soil drenching Calixin @ 25 ml/25 L of water at
four month-interval checked the stem bleeding disease of coconut.
A
package of technology "to live with" the root (wilt) disease of
coconut has been developed and is being popularised.