Approach Grafting - a New Approach for the formation of Clonal Bank of <I>Terminalia chebula</I>

Abstract

Terminalia chebula is a highly valuable forestry species, not only for its timber value, but even more so for its medicinal and commercial value as tannin. Its natural regeneration by seed is poor due to its hard mesocarp, thick shell and poor formation of kernel and vegetative propagation through quite successful, requires juvenile period for fruiting. To over come time difficulty its cleft grafting was tried and was successful in getting good graft plants in good time. These were also well branched, gave suitable branchlet for approach grafting which was also very successful and opens new horizon's for the formation of a clonal bank for this species. This new technology will also help farmers in obtaining sustained income gains as well.