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    Lower Your Betel Vines For Good Returns

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    Lowering betel vines once a year helps rejuvenate them and increases yields. When vines grow too high, leaves are harder to harvest. Lowering the vines requires less water and causes more primary branches to form, boosting leaf production. In Andhra Pradesh, vines are lowered from March to May and given tank silt to firm the coiled vines. In some areas, vines are lowered twice a year. Before lowering, leaves are harvested except a few tender ones. The vines are then untied, coiled, buried with the top shoots left exposed to regrow up the support. Lowering is followed by irrigation, and the process of regrowing the vines up the supports repeats until the next lowering.

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    Lowering betel vines once a year helps rejuvenate them and increases yields. When vines grow too high, leaves are harder to harvest. Lowering the vines requires less water and causes more primary branches to form, boosting leaf production. In Andhra Pradesh, vines are lowered from March to May and given tank silt to firm the coiled vines. In some areas, vines are lowered twice a year. Before lowering, leaves are harvested except a few tender ones. The vines are then untied, coiled, buried with the top shoots left exposed to regrow up the support. Lowering is followed by irrigation, and the process of regrowing the vines up the supports repeats until the next lowering.

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    Lowering betel vines once a year helps rejuvenate them and increases yields. When vines grow too high, leaves are harder to harvest. Lowering the vines requires less water and causes more primary branches to form, boosting leaf production. In Andhra Pradesh, vines are lowered from March to May and given tank silt to firm the coiled vines. In some areas, vines are lowered twice a year. Before lowering, leaves are harvested except a few tender ones. The vines are then untied, coiled, buried with the top shoots left exposed to regrow up the support. Lowering is followed by irrigation, and the process of regrowing the vines up the supports repeats until the next lowering.

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    Lower Your Betel Vines For Good Returns

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    Lowering betel vines once a year helps rejuvenate them and increases yields. When vines grow too high, leaves are harder to harvest. Lowering the vines requires less water and causes more primary branches to form, boosting leaf production. In Andhra Pradesh, vines are lowered from March to May and given tank silt to firm the coiled vines. In some areas, vines are lowered twice a year. Before lowering, leaves are harvested except a few tender ones. The vines are then untied, coiled, buried with the top shoots left exposed to regrow up the support. Lowering is followed by irrigation, and the process of regrowing the vines up the supports repeats until the next lowering.

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    LOWER YOUR BETEL VINES FOR GOOD RETURNS

    S.ESWARA REDDY

    Botanical name of betel vine is Piper betel. Known as pan in India is an evergreen climber that is grown for its leaves Betel leaves has good export potential and India exports betel leaves to the countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh When, under normal conditions, the vines in a year grow to height of 10'-12' and their vigour to produce normal sized leaves gets reduced, they need rejuvenation. This rejuvenation is achieved by lowering the vines down to the ground level at least once a year. Another consideration is that when vines grow too high along the supports, the leaves are harvested with a ladder. Betel vine is a crop demanding frequent irrigation, and it is not always that the farmer has the means to meet this

    requirement without difficulty. The problem is eased by lowering the vines, since after lowering the vines, do not demand as much water. Further, the yield of leaves in Betel vine gardens depends on the number of primary branches. In new plantation, each sett produces only one primary vine. But after the vine is lowered, a number of primaries are produced from the nodes on the lowered vine. In view of all these considerations, lowering of the vines has a special significance in betel vine cultivation. In Andhra Pradesh it is done from March- May and then tank silt is applied @80 - 100 cartloads / ac on the coiled vines for firmness. In Kadapah AP area lowering is done twice a year i.e. in June-July and December. Before the first lowering, no leaves are

    harvested, excerpt in places where the life of the crop is just above 3 years. But prior to subsequent lowering, all the leaves on the vine except a few tender ones at the top arc removed. Then the vine

    is untied from bottom upwards and coiled up carefully, leaving 1'-2' length of top shoots. It is then buried in a small trench dug at the base of the support. The soil is earthed up firmly, leaving the top shoots, to climb up on the live support again. In some localities, the plantation is matured at the time of lowering and also earthed up all over to raise the level of the beds. In all cases, the lowering is immediately followed by light irrigation. Following lowering: the shoots appearing as tillers start growing fast and need training up again. The process of trailing up and other operations lowering.
    dr_esreddy@yahoo.co.in 15th Sep 2011

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