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Peaches

Crop Category

Fruits

Applicable Product

Description

Peach cultivation is done throughout the warmer temperature regions of both Northern and Southern hemispheres.

A Peach is a soft, juicy and fleshy stone fruit.

In India Peach growing states are Uttarakhand, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim.

The total area under Peach cultivation is 19 hectares, with a production of 117 Mt.

Taxonomic Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species: persica

Economically Important Part

Fruits are the most economic part of Peach cultivation

Conditions for Cultivation

Peaches do well in wet and cool climate with cold winter and dry summer.

In sub-tropical areas of North, the low chilling cultivars require 50-300 hours of chilling during the winter for proper flowering and fruiting.

Peaches thrive well on light sandy soil.

Deep, fertile, loam or sandy loam with good drainage is considered good for successful Peach cultivation.

Major Challenges

The major challenges involve Biotic and Abiotic causes.
Biotic Causes:
- Major Pests: Peach Leaf Curl Aphid, Peach Tree Borer, Sanjose Scale, Flat Headed Borer and Short Hole Borer.
- Major Diseases: Bacterial Spot, Brown Rot, Leaf Curl and Coryneum Blight and Shot Hole
Abiotic Causes:
- Split Pit
- Buttons / Cold Damage
- Chimera

Crop Schedule

Crop Stage	Products	Dosage	Method Of Application	Benefits
Inorganic Fertilizer	Geoxol.COM	50-100 g / plant	Soil Application	Rejuvenates soil for sustainable growth of crops
Organic fertilizer after stress	Mycoxol4G	10 g per liter of water	Soil Drenching	Reduces incidence of soil borne diseases, improves availability of phosphorous and other micronutrients
Deficiency of Zinc	Nutrin Zn	650 g / hectare / application, if soil Zn (less than 0.6ppm),repeat application is recommended based on deficiency	Foliar Application	Corrects Zinc deficiency
Deficiency of Iron	Nutrin Fe	650 g / hectare / application, if soil Fe (less than 4.5 ppm),repeat application is recommended based on deficiency	Foliar Application	Corrects Iron deficiency
Bud break	Nutrifight	2 g per liter of water	Foliar Application	Reduces incidence of diseases
Vegetative sprouting	Silixol	2 ml per liter of water	Foliar Application	Triggers metabolic activities
Pre flowering	CalSi-B++	1 g per liter of water	Foliar Application	Optimizes nutrient requirement
Fruit Setting	Silixol	2 ml per liter of water	Foliar Application	Reduces physiological fruit dropping
Fruit Development 2	CalSi-B++	1 g per liter of water	Foliar Application	Facilitates fruit development
Fruit Development 2	Nutrifight	2 g per liter of water	Foliar Application	Reduces incidence of diseases
Fruit Development 2	Nutrin Combo	1-2 ml per liter of water	Foliar Application	Optimizes nutrient requirement
Fruit Development 2	CalSi-B++	1 g per liter of water	Foliar Application	Facilitates fruit development
Fruit Ripening	Silixol	2 ml per liter of water	Foliar Application	Improves quality and quantity of produce
Pruning (after harvest)	Nutrifight	2 g per liter of water	Foliar Application	Reduces incidence of diseases

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