Many tropical fruit trees, including mango, avocado and orange, perform better when farmers merge good fruiting characteristics with resistance to disease. To accomplish this, a single stem is placed ...

Many people who have space in their compounds somehow never imagine they can grow their very own fruits trees for home consumption in that space. Yet growing grafted fruit trees in your backyard can ...

Kamugisha (standing, right) and his wife, Faustus (wearing a hat) help the farm employees to make grafted mango tree plantlets. PHOTO BY MICHAEL J SSALI Eden Kamugisha of Kisagazi village in Mukungwe ...

Sanjay Naik's mango orchard in Navsari's Gandeva village has become a centre of attraction for farmers in the nearby villages. "The confidence to grow more varieties on a single tree became strong ...

Gardeners love a challenge, and cardiologist Dr. Abdul Ali is no exception. That's why Ali will soon harvest some 50 fruit from the mango tree he nurtured in a pot to maturity before planting in his ...

“Our farmers are not happy. Economically they are suffering. Their children don't want to continue in agriculture, as it is not remunerative. In certain parts of western Tamil Nadu, such as Erode you ...

The horticulture department grafted 42 mango varieties on a single tree at the chief minister’s residence. These varieties include Arunima, Arunika, Amlika, Surya, Lalima, Mallika, Nilay and Amrapali ...

Shrinivas has made grafting an art and he struck gold. The tree yielded over 500 mangoes and he gives them away for free Post-retirement, in fact at the ripe age of 70 years, K Shrinivas spends a lot ...