Management

  • Cut and remove disease advanced, uneconomical palms yielding less than 10 nuts per palm per year
  • Grow green manure crops - cowpea, sunhemp (Crotalaria juncea), Mimosa invisa, Calapagonium mucanoides, Pueraria phaseoloides etc. may be sown in coconut basins during April-May and incorporated during September-October.
  • Irrigate coconut palms with at least 250 litre water in a week.
  • Adopt suitable inter/mixed cropping in coconut gardens.
  • Provide adequate drainage facilities