Cashew is one of the important commercial plantation and foreign exchange earning crops of the country. It is being grown in an area of 7.2 lakh ha with a production of 5.2 lakh M tones. Most of the area under cashew restricted to coastal region but in recent years, cashew is becoming popular even in non-traditional areas like interior Karnataka (dry tracts) wherein the climatic conditions are dry and entirely different from that of coastal region. Prevalence of higher maximum temperature and low humidity in most of parts of the year, results in lower success of grafts. Therefore, it is necessary to provide congenial conditions for getting maximum graft success by establishing propagation structures. Hence, with a view to evaluate the efficacy of different propagation structures a trial was conducted in different seasons for enhancing the production of grafts and work out their cost economics of the structures.
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