When Durian Changed The Season

Becareful With Disease

Encouraged the fruitful durian apart from the season not without the hindrance. Seven trees monthong in Vincent's garden that was given by the treatment in 2004 died. Three months after the harvest, the leaves turned yellow, stick skin peel off, and the branch of the crack. None could be rescued. From the sign that was shown, Roedhy suspected that resulting from the Phythopthora attack palmivora. The rotten cause mushroom of the stick was easy attacked because of the condition for the weak crop after fruitful.

The other enemy, fusarium. The officer's durian that also was given by the treatment more kept threw. That the incident does not occur again, Daniel immediately fertilised like in the treatment of early that the fast crop is restored. The durian was left fruitful in accordance with the season. The treatment to overcome fusarium, the Etridiasol fungicide the dose 6 g/l and the combination 2 g/l Benlate with 4 g/l Delsene was injected in 4 points be at a distance 1 m. from the root system. The treatment of water stress only was effective to be followed with the availability of the sun rays. The sun rays were needed to photosynthesis the element of the nutrient became energy that was needed for the growth and the formation.

This was enabled if in the area his wet month only 2 months. The example like in NTT and partly East Java, said Reza. The other stumbling block, the economical value the crop after the treatment. The production in Wonosalam dropped as far as 35%. While the production cost increased from Rp70,000 per the tree per the season to Rp100,000 With the normal production assumption of the crop was 6 years totalling 30-40, old the production dropped was 20-25. When in general his weight 4 kg meant the production per the tree was 80- 100 kg. With the price in July Rp30,000, the income per the tree Rp2,4 million-Rp3 million. Currently farmers are remained counted, are they wanted to made the durian changing the season?

The Technique to Turned Mangosteens 80% Save

Mangosteens were known as the crop with not good root system. One upside down root and few roots beside. It also did not have root hairs. As a result the area of the root was sensitive to the disturbance. For reasons of so, the transfer of the risky mangosteens crop is high. Rarely very the crop that was moved survived. Generally immediately died in the calculation of the day after being moved.

The risk of the death was increasingly high together with improved the crop size. Increasingly big the crop, then the number of roots that was broken resulting from the demolition was increasingly high. Nevertheless, Jackson, an importer of mangosteens, determined opposed the public opinion. He had success moved the crop was 7-10 years with the level of the success old 99%.

Balitbu Solok, afterwards tried and observed directly the technique turned in the style of Jackson. Totalling 22 mangosteens crops be as high as 2-3 m. was moved to the trial garden in penghujung 2004. Two years after planting, evidently 18 crops lived and grew normal (saw the picture 6 and 7). Meaning that, the level of the success in reaching 80%. Beforehand-in the age a year-5 the crop was equal 25% began to be productive. The following season increased to 8 crops or was equal 45%.

Fast to Fruitful

The data showed, mature mangosteens could be moved and could survive with the level of the high success. Besides this production time could be speeded up because of 1-2 years after the transfer has begun to be fruitful. The other profit, the technique became alternative to space out the garden of the people's mangosteens that was in a meeting because of growing natural, opened the fast new opportunity of the mangosteens garden of being productive, and stimulating the investor to mengebunkan mangosteens.

Uptil now the investor reluctantly mengebunkan mangosteens because of the crop just were productive on 5 years. In practice, the withdrawal and planting were carried out with help of the crane implement that could pull vertically. Although safer, after being wrapped, the crop was indirectly carried. The upside down root previously should be not cut off. Let in his original place for 2-4 weeks in order to be able to adapt grew without roots beside.

(M. Jawal Anwarudin Shah, Tutik Setiowati, and Usman Paradise, the Researcher in the Hall of the Crop Research the tropics, Solok)

When the Jackfruit was coloured orange

The Jackfruit and cempedak indeed close relatives. However, jackfruit meat was orange like cempedak a rare scenery. So, when the orange jackfruit was present at the exhibition of the Kasetsart University crop, Bangkok, of Thailand, natural if he was surrounded by the visitor.
This was supreme Chonburi, said Deng Suriya, the owner.

Since the last 7 years Deng Suriya incessant Artocarpus heterophyllus. His perseverance currently is in the form of 5.000 orange jackfruit trees that grew fertile in Chonburi to the land measuring 16 ha. The age 3 years could crop. Usually was reaped 2 months after blossoming, he said.

The previous fruitful season, December 2005 and in May 2006, he reaped 20 kanoon-term the jackfruit in Thai-per the tree. The orange Suriya jackfruit was acknowledged by his reliability.
Three times were endless the degree of the first champion the contest in Pattaya became his property. That because of the colour other from normal and was felt sweet, said the skinned man the cooked sapodilla. Same that made the sale of the hard seed of the behaviour tree in Kasetsart Fair.

In Cijunjung

According to Montri Wongrakpanich, the director Department of Agriculture Extention in Thailand, the orange jackfruit has for a long time grown in Chonburi, Thailand. His productivity was then considered to be big. Each tree produced 20 with the weight approximately 3 kg.
Love, his colour was still orange. In fact that was looked for was red, he said. The price of the orange jackfruit was equal to the normal jackfruit, 20 baht or Rp 5,200/kg.

The jackfruit was exotic that evidently not the Thai monopoly. In the Cijunjung Village, West Sumatra, also had the unique jackfruit. According to Drs Jawal Anwaruddin Shah, Ms-researcher in the Hall of the Crop Research in Solok, Sumatra West-dompolan only was suspended in the main stick. Usual him same was in the branch. The characteristics are usually owned cempedak.

The possibility of the orange jackfruit the natural crossing between cempedak and the jackfruit, said Jawal. Have the shape of round that currently was researched to be released to the superior variety. The Tamil Nadu city, India, also had the coloured jackfruit. The uniqueness, the jackfruit in the south Indian area was red. Really red, said Montri recalled the visit to India in the last 10 years. The matter of the feeling was sweeter compared with the orange jackfruit.
Meat then thick and crispy. Love, in the area of his origin, the red jackfruit was not yet often developed.

Yellow Round

Apart from the orange jackfruit, Thailand had the round jackfruit was shiny yellow. The jackfruit belonging to Piyamada Farm in Saraburi. Piyamada, the owner, planted 450 trees. The first harvest was done when the tree was 2.5 years old. At that time the amount of only 2, said Piyamada. The harvest along with 8-10/the tree. The weight was considered to be big, 8-10 kg.

The freshness of the meat can be seen from it seems that was sweet was mixed with acid. The feeling mixture so that was enjoyed by the local inhabitants. The reason often had an interest taken in him by the price of the seed then jumped. The stick 1 branch costing Rp52,000, 2 branches Rp78,000, and 4 branches Rp130,000.

The orange jackfruit, round yellow, and red like antiques that were looked for by the lover. Supposing that they were in Indonesia, the predicate of the prima donna must be held. Was like this the Jawal conviction and Mubin Usman, farmer in Jakarta.