Hi All, I have around 25 acres of land, leased out on yearly basis. We (me and my cousins) have been thinking about agroforestery off late, so this year we plan to start timber based plantations on 6.5 acres land (1.5 acres red soil, and rest 5 acres is black soil). - 2.2 acres of Eucalyptus (black…

Hi All, Thanks a lot for your replies. I work in Hyderabad as Team Lead in a US based MNC, off late the thought of growing timber trees came as these do not need 100% of my time, couple of days on the weekend should be fine once the trees are 6 months old. I employed a guy to be at my farm for day-…

Good to know. Leave a message to member saverafarms who has good recent experience on Melia Dubia planting.

Hi All, Apologies for reply back to you after so long. Finally I am done with my plantations…I have got below planed on my farm (Near Kohir, Zahirabad) 1000 - Media Dubia as Intercrop of Mango and Guava 250 - Mango ( 5 varities of 50 each) 200 - Guarva (4 varieties of 50 each) 200 - Silver Oak 10…

Hi Vamshi, Thanks for the details. Would that be possible for you to share the cost you incurred to plant these and whats the yield/net returns you are expecting in years from now. I would be interested to see the farm too and I would be in Hyderabad around march/april and would look for you. Tha…

Hi Aditya, For a 5 acre plantation, approximately 2000 plants were planted costing around 3.75 Lakh. The bulk of the cost was for setting up the drip irrigation, the subsidy schme did not workout for me, so had to go ahead without it - costed 1 lakh altogether. so the overall costing for plantation…

I dont know if this post is late but… 4.5 ft for melia dubia is very close… I have tried 8 ft, 10 ft and now 15 ft with fodder in between…Check out more details at www.saverafarms.com . My plantation is little over 1 year and pilots over 2 years… Good luck! This is in response to another post of y…

Hi Sir, Thank you for your reply. Yes, even I thought 4.5 X 4.5 is too agressive - so finally we have Mango & Guarva planted at 20X20 with MeliaDudia at 10X10 as Intercrop. The spacing is 10 feet between adjacent plant with plantation pattern as below - Mango/MD is on a 3.5 acres, and Guarva/MD on …

Vamshi, My only point of concern is how do you control irrigate/fertigate the trees? I guess you have 2 sub mains to control that. If that is so, then it is fine. If not, then when you intend to fertigate mango, the nutrients are going to melia as well (which is wasteful) !

Good point, have not thought about it yet. Will try to improvize when we expand the farm next year :slight_smile: Some other question, I am planning to cultivate with minimum extras (say fertilizer or persides or manures) as the land was barren was quite a while now…do you still think we need to su…

You need to apply 10-15 KG of fym, neemcake etc. VAM is not necessary but will not harm if u apply. Broadcasting danchea or cowpea will take care of Nitrogen in the soil… Check out techie2aggie.blogspot.in/search/label/Composting for composting methods…

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