Standardization of Organic Agro-techniques for Peach under High Density Planting System

 Salient features

• Either of the organic manures like vermicompost, NADEP or farmyard manure @ 45 kg/tree in combination with mycorrhiza (50 g) proved beneficial as source of nutrition for five-year-old peach cultivar Red June plants under high density (1 m × 4 m) planting.
• Fruit quality like TSS, reducing and total sugars, total carotenoid contents, ascorbic acid and total antioxidant improved in the organically produced peaches.
• The average yield recorded in organic nutrition was 9.5 tonne/ha.
• The fruit quality like firmness was improved in the organically produced peaches.
• The fruits were found to have better post-harvest shelf-life.

Performance
• The organic nutrition technology has been found suitable for peach growing regions of Uttarakhand.

Impact and benefits
• Organic peaches fetch premium price in the market and the nutrition schedule improves physico-chemical properties of soil.