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4.8.3 BIOTIC CONSTRAINT
• Fruit drop in coconut, panama wilt in banana, powdery mildew and
hopper in mango, fruit and shoot borer, mite and fruit cracking in
litchi.
• Sudden dying of mango plants.
4.8.4 DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS
• Small size of holding 77.6% of total number of holdings is marginal
in size (<1.0 ha).
• Poor infrastructure development such as rural road and electricity
supply.
• Inadequate post harvest handling facilities and poor market support,
etc. does not enable growers to fetch remunerative price for their
produce.
4.8.5 TECHNOLOGICAL INADEQUACY
• Production maximization through micro irrigation and fertigation.in
horticultural crops.
• Use of bio regulator to manipulate the growth and development pro-
cess in fruit crops to streamline the production.
• Development of INM strategies for different horticultural crops.
• Intercrop prescription for different fruit crops.
• Technology for protected cultivation of high value low volume crops.
4.9
THE SPECIFIC CONSTRAINTS OF THE COASTAL REGION
OF EASTERN INDIA
4.9.1 EDAPHOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS
• Soil salinity resulting in formation of salt encrustation.
• Deficiency of nitrogen and available phosphorus.
• Deficiency of micronutrients like iron, manganese, zinc, copper, boron.
• Impeded drainage.
