Name some shade trees suitable for planting in coffee estates?
27. During summer dadap trees shows scorching symptom? How to control / overcome that? During summer the stem of dadap are painted with dilute lime or wrapped in agave leaves or polythene sheets to prevent from sun scorching. 28. For the past two years I could not get any proper blossom showers during March – April. Is there any alternative method for producing the blossom showers? Sprinkler irrigation during March – April is the ideal alternative system for blossom showers. After doing this operation uniform coffee flowering will be notices in the estates. 29. What is the ideal stage for tapping the rubber? Trees attain tappable stage in about 7 years. First tapping in seedling trees will commence when the trunk attains a girth of 55 cm at 50 cm height from the ground. In budded trees the girth should be 50 cm at 125 cm height from the bud union. 30. Is there any method to increase the latex flow in rubber? Ethrel is recommended to increase latex yield of trees tapped on panel D. It i
