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Fruit trees, like most crops, respond to god soil with vigour and productivity. Trees can successfully produce economic yields on hillsides, rocky soils and other sites not suitable for frequent tillage. Look careful at your site and take stock of tits soil, slope and aspect, water infiltration and drainage, frost patterns, maximum and minimum temperatures, length of growing season, distribution of annual precipitation availability of water for irrigation, proximity of the water table, and wind and air circulation patterns. Most of these are beyond your control and your planting plan must suit the natural conditions of the site. While farmers may be able to improve the soil over time, they cannot change the subsoil layers, influence the prevailing wind, or modify temperatures to any significant extent. All the factors regarding site suitability for conventional fruit plantings apply even more so to organic operations. While conventional growers may fall back on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to compensate for some poor site decisions, organic growers cannot. Good drainage and air circulation are essential for disease control. Present book has been designed to provide overall information of principles of fruit production not only to students but also to common layman who is interested in fruit production.