National Research Centre For Citrus, P.O.: Shankar Nagar, Nagpur-440010, Maharastra.
Different in-situ soil and water conservation treatments consisting of continuous trenching, continuous bunding, staggered trenching between the rows and control (without any soil and water conservation treatment) were evaluated during 2003–04 in 11 years old acid lime orchard at Nagpur. All the conservation treatments were effective in checking loss of runoff, soil and nutrients, which resulted in a favourable response of the plants in terms of better growth, fruit yield and quality, compared to those under the control. The treatment, continuous trenching produced the best response conserving 38% runoff, 32.28% soil loss, 32.44%N, 27.67% P, and 28.95% K over control, besides 18% higher fruit yield.
