Agricultural Technology

The common mango planting distance followed is 10 m by 10 m giving minimum 7-8 m inter space for introducing fodder crops. Karnataka has an estimated 90,000 ha in prime fruiting mango crop which if put under fodder crops (Bajra Napier Hybrid, Guinea, Perennial fodder sorghum) is estimated to produce 39.5 lakh tons of green fodder in a year meeting more than 7 lakh livestock’s green fodder requirement round the year