• Seeds are collected from high yielding and regular bearing trees.
  
  
• Seeds are extracted after soaking the fruits overnight in water and rubbing them in a sieve and washing with clean water.
  
  
• The seeds are ready for sowing after drying them in shade. Nursery beds of 1.2 m width are prepared with light soil incorporated with organic matter or a mixture of sand and coir dust or coir dust alone.
  
  
• After sowing the beds are mulched to hasten germination
  
  
• Dried leaves, paper and damp sacks are used as mulches
  
  
• Germination takes place 15 days after sowing

Vegetative propagation:

• Air layering in the month of January