Management
- Cut and remove disease advanced,
uneconomical palms yielding less than 10 nuts per palm per year
- Grow green manure crops - cowpea,
sunhemp (Crotalaria juncea), Mimosa invisa, Calapagonium
mucanoides, Pueraria phaseoloides etc. may be sown in coconut
basins during April-May and incorporated during September-October.
- Irrigate coconut palms with at
least 250 litre water in a week.
- Adopt suitable inter/mixed cropping
in coconut gardens.
- Provide adequate drainage
facilities