{"title":"NEEM AS AN EFFECTIVE BIOCONTROL AGENT FOR TEA PESTS","authors":"S. Ramarethinam, S. Marimuthu, N. Murugesan","doi":"10.20425/IJTS.V3I1AND2.4603","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Plucking average, thereby, cost of harvesting of tea cannot be viewed in isolation as they are a product of multiple factors such as 'jat', age from pruning, height of bush and plucker, harvesting intervals and nutritional and health status of the bush. Use of mechanical implements, either hand-operated or motorized, if motorized, either held by one or two-men or self-propelled, contribute significantly to cost reduction in harvesting. However, choice of an appropriate implement to suit to the prevailing conditions in a region should be made carefully, lest the mechanization result in crop depression. Hand operated shears are currently in wide use without detriment to quality. The results with motorized, one or two-men held machines are varying, often leading to depression in quality and yield. They are in use in Japan, Russia, Argentina, Australia, Indonesia and Taiwan, but, in the importing countries they are proving uneconomic because of their high price and cost of maintenance; there is, thus, a need to develop machine(s) indigenously. The mounted, self-propelled machines are of limited application because of constraints in their manoeuvrability on gradients over 5°.","PeriodicalId":17156,"journal":{"name":"茶叶科学","volume":"1 1","pages":"39-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"茶叶科学","FirstCategoryId":"1087","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20425/IJTS.V3I1AND2.4603","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Plucking average, thereby, cost of harvesting of tea cannot be viewed in isolation as they are a product of multiple factors such as 'jat', age from pruning, height of bush and plucker, harvesting intervals and nutritional and health status of the bush. Use of mechanical implements, either hand-operated or motorized, if motorized, either held by one or two-men or self-propelled, contribute significantly to cost reduction in harvesting. However, choice of an appropriate implement to suit to the prevailing conditions in a region should be made carefully, lest the mechanization result in crop depression. Hand operated shears are currently in wide use without detriment to quality. The results with motorized, one or two-men held machines are varying, often leading to depression in quality and yield. They are in use in Japan, Russia, Argentina, Australia, Indonesia and Taiwan, but, in the importing countries they are proving uneconomic because of their high price and cost of maintenance; there is, thus, a need to develop machine(s) indigenously. The mounted, self-propelled machines are of limited application because of constraints in their manoeuvrability on gradients over 5°.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Tea Science was established in August 1964, approved by the Publicity Department, CCCPC. Its title was inscribed by Zhu De, the chairman of CCCPC. It was discontinued during the Cultural Revolution in 1966, and it was reissued in August 1984, approved by the State Scientific and Technological Commission.Academicians Chen Zongmao and Liu Zhonghuaof the Chinese Academy of Engineering served as the directors of the editorial board. The Journal of Tea Science is managed by the China Association for Science and Technology,sponsored by the China Tea Science Society and the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and edited and published by the editorial office of the Journal of Tea Science. It is the only one of Chinese core journals in the field of tea science that is included in the core library of the Chinese Science Citation Database.Its Domestic Unified Serial Number is CN 33-1115/S, its International Standard Serial Number is ISSN 1000-369X and its International publication name code is CODEN-CHKEF4. At present, the Journal of Tea Science is a bimonthly publication, published in the middle of the month, with a book size of 16.