IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/iepeoa/244908.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Economic Effects Of Chemical Fruit Thinning Of The Young Trees

Author

Listed:
  • Milic, Biserka
  • Keserovic, Zoran
  • Magazin, Nenad

Abstract

Control of apple trees productivity, during the first years of bearing is essential for maintaining high and regular yields in the entire exploitation period. Removing redundant fruitlets has to be done every year, either by hand or using chemical thinning compounds. The object of this research was to optimize the intensity of chemical fruit thinning according to yield and income in Golden Delicious apple orchard, in the second and third fruiting season. Three rates of 6- benzyladenine (BA) were applied to thin fruits: 100, 150 and 200 mg/l. Calculated income decreased after BA application by 12,5-21,5% compared to the untreated group. The most efficient treatment was 200 mg/l BA, regarding average fruit weight, diameter and yield which nearly reached the planned yields. Additional correction of fruit number per tree by hand thinning was the least necessary after treatment with 200 mg/l BA.

Suggested Citation

  • Milic, Biserka & Keserovic, Zoran & Magazin, Nenad, 2011. "Economic Effects Of Chemical Fruit Thinning Of The Young Trees," Economics of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 58(01).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iepeoa:244908
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.244908
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/244908/files/Article%2010.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.244908?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:iepeoa:244908. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iepbgyu.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.