Used rubber tyres repurposed as trellis-tops by Dragon Fruit farmers in Telangana

A fewer farmers successful Telangana person adopted the signifier of repurposing rubber tyres arsenic trellis-tops successful Dragon Fruits cultivation.The wheels are utilized arsenic the crown of pillars portion of trellis — a model of chromatic oregon factual pillars and wires which assistance vines to spread. An acre of trellis needs astir 187 pillars and an adjacent fig of circular structures are needed.

The farmers said that utilizing aged tyres was a signifier successful different countries, which was adopted here.However, galore present preferred cement (circular) structures to enactment the vine astatine the top. 

Sripathi Ponnaiah, a husbandman successful Adraspalle of Mudichinthalpally mandal successful Medchal Malkajgiri said that helium has placed the tyres 4 years agone and nary of them cracked. “I checked them recently. They are inactive strong,” helium said. 

However, experienced farmers cautioned that worn retired tyres are prone to cracking arsenic rubber whitethorn go brittle owed to agelong vulnerability to water, prima and cold, starring to harvest collapsing.

”Dragon effect works is simply a creeper, which cannot enactment itself. It would not carnivore fruits oregon springiness little nutrient if it grows lone vertically. The circular operation helps it to dispersed and the stems driblet — which helps the works successful flowering. This method helps successful having much stems, much flowers and frankincense much fruits,” said Srinivas Rao Madhavaram, laminitis and manager of Deccan Exotics FPO - which has a wide postulation of Dragon Fruits. 

He said that the perfect diameter of a circular operation should beryllium betwixt 24 to 28 inches. Anything implicit oregon little that  whitethorn not assistance successful getting a bully output due to the fact that of overcrowding and decreases aerial flow. 

A husbandman from Kondareddypally successful Keshampet Mandal of Rangareddy, Panala Shyam Kumar, said that though immoderate farmers utilized rubber tyres, helium opted for cement structures connected apical of poles to debar harm to the crop.

The highest accumulation of the effect successful 2024-25 was 1980 metric tonnes successful Siddipet crossed 183.25 acres, followed by 840.78 MTs successful 164.725 acres successful Sangareddy and 691.2 MTs successful 120.225 acres successful Nagarkurnool. Siddipet District Horticulture and Sericulture Officer, G. Suvarna, said that astir of the farmers successful the territory usage cement structures. 

Telangana districts with highest accumulation of Dragon Fruit