Claim · model-written summary
Chill units for apple in the high hill temperate wet zone of Himachal Pradesh showed a decreasing trend of 11.40 chill units per year over 1986 to 2015.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae0 - Outcome
- chill unitse1
- Direction
- decreasing trende1
- Value
- 11.40 chill units per yeare1
- Setting
- high hill temperate wet zone of Himachal Pradeshe0
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Verbatim
e0“in high hill temperate wet zone of Himachal Pradesh to assess chilling trends and its effect on apple productivity”
e1“Results indicated a decreasing trend of the order of 11.40 chill units per year”
Title
Hukam Chand; SC Verma; SK Bhardwaj; et al. Journal of Hill Agriculture 2015. doi:10.5958/2230-7338.2015.00046.4
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Chill units declined across the three decades 1986-1995, 1996-2005 and 2006-2015, by 119.30 CU per decade.
- Observation Among winter months the maximum decrease in chill units, 6.24 CU per year, was observed in November.
- Observation Trend analysis of the last five years 2011-2015 showed a decrease of 2.92 chill units per year.
- Observation Apple productivity in Shimla district over the last twenty five years (1988-2014) showed an increasing trend.
- Observation The authors suggest climatic conditions might become unfavorable for apple cultivation in coming years given the decreasing chill unit accumulation.
- Observation The authors suggest this may lead to a shift of the apple belt to higher altitude in the region to accumulate the required chill units.