Train in the first year for a high head and evenly spread scaffold branches. Remove rootstock sprouts. Prune dried, diseased and criss-cross branches in April–May, after pod harvest. For the first four years, legumes, short vegetables, annual moringa, sesame and sorghum can be grown between rows.
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Source
Crop Production Guide – Horticulture Crops 2020 (Directorate of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, Tamil Nadu & Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU)), Tamarind – After cultivation; training; pruning, p. 183
