Lemon cultivation
The lemon cultivation will do in the redsoil and also black soil.The citrus variety will requires less water.Nearly 40 000 acres were cultivated in Puliyangudi sourroundings ,tirunelveli Dist ,tamilnadu.Due to water scarcity this was happened in puliyangudi.The farmers of the Puliyangudi are satisfied with the lemon cultivation with availiable water.One thing for your information that the daily market for exclusively lemon trading there as regular..The commision agents & traders in Puliyangudi despatching the lemon fruits nearly 20 to 30 trucks to kerala ,all parts of the tamilnadu daily.The farmers of Puliyangudi opted and planted the local deshi variety not hibreed.Eventhough the fruits are big in size like hibreed variety.Now some of the pioneer farmers have planted hibreed variety like budded ,grafted and airlayers.The most of the lemon cultivated area are redsoil.
In karnataka one lemon belt is availiable .That place place is Bijapur district.Here also wide area has been planted lemon.I think that plantation area will be much more than Puliyan gudi.Here also lemon cultivation is going in full swing.The daily lemon market also big one.The fruits are also very good size,rich in colour and more juicey content.The farmers of the Bijapur area also plant the local deshi variety.I think the Bijapur district very aried area in karnataka with adqute shortage of water.The major portion of the lemon cultivated area were in Bijapur district is black soil.So the lemon will grow in both redsoil & black soil.
Eventhough in olden days the farmers opted the deshi local deshi varieties.Now somany hibreed varieties are availiable in india with somanay salient features like big size in fruit ,rich in colour, very fine aroma,no black dots outside fruits skin,more juicey content & keeping capacity with little care of packing.But we never aviod the deshi variety while planting the hibreed.Nearly we can plant 10% of the deshi /local varieties along with hibreed varieties This will enhance the yield ,strenghing the morpology of the hibreed trees .The cross polination will be there.So yield of the hibreed tree will increase year by year. And also we will save the deshi varieties for fortcoming generations.
The following hibreed avrieties are availiable with us i) PKM -I (TNAU),ii) Tagite (TNAU),iii) Coorg mandarian (Karnataka university),iv) Kazi lemon tissue culture (Gujarat university),v)The latest & recent variety "Balaji" (Andhra university & citrus research institute) vi) Italian Eureka seedless lemon.The identified local & deshi varieties are as follows i) Pu'iyangudi(one of the farmer was president s award winner Mr Antonysamy,tamilnadu),ii) Bijapur Karanataka,iii) Thirupathur (Mr Angamuthu the lemon farmer president award winner for lemon cultivation ,tamilnadu),iv) Arasampatti (tamilnadu) v) kaddappa (andhra )
So we are having all kind of varieties in hibreed and deshi /local varieties with us.
For more details plz contact us:
a Sivakumar
Priya Nursery Garden
KARAIKUDI-630001,TN
9843080275
priyagar06@yahoo.co.in
