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IRRIGATION

Drip irrigation using pitcher pot or tube will keep the soil moisture constant without much fluctuation. This helps the pomegranate to get better establishment in the early stage as well as regular bearing in the fruiting phase.   
The average annual water requirement through drip irrigation is 20 cm. Drip irrigation helps to save 44% on irrigation and 64% when sugarcane trash mulch is used. It also helps to increase the yield by 30-35%.
Training, pruning and other intercultural operations
Pomegranate is trained as bush. Pomegranate tree has a tendency to throw out lot of suckers.  If it is trained on a single stem system and if it is damaged by stem borer then the tree will be lost.  Therefore, 3-4 stems are allowed per plant and they are pinched at a height of 1 metre and below the pinched tip of each stem upto 25-30 cm, 2-3 branches well distributed in all direction are encouraged. Such a training will help for good maintenance of the tree.  In pomegranate the fruits are borne terminally on short spurs produced all along the slow growing mature wood.  They bear fruit for 3-4 years.  Every year during winter a light pruning is to be given to shorten the previous season growth so as to encourage fruiting.  Besides this, dead and diseased branches, water sprouts (suckers) should be removed periodically. Water sprouts from the base should be nipped at the start of their growth so a to avoid wastage of food material.
In such growth which exhaust the maximum reserve food. IF such diversion of food is allowed then there will be very poor bearing in the trees.  Crops regulation can be done by withdrawal of irrigation water followed by manuring and then irrigation, Water is withheld for about 2 months in advance of the normal flowering season.  After 2 months, manures and fertilizers are applied and light irrigation is given. Three to four days later heavier irrigations at normal interval are followed.  For this treatment the trees readily respond and produce new growth, bloom and bear a good crop.  The fruits are ready for harvest in about 5-7 months after the appearance of blossoms.  Fruit cracking is a serious problem.  This is mainly due to high temperature coupled with moisture stress at the time of fruit growth and maturity some times it is due to boron and potassium deficiency.  The intensity increase if the matured fruits are subjected to drought or heavy rains.  Cracking can be controlled by avoiding moisture stress during fruit development, application of recommended dose of 500 g of potash and bimonthly spraying of 0.25% borax = 0.1% urea during the later stages of fruit development. 
INTER - CROPPING

Inter-cropping with low growing vegetables, pulses or green manure crops is beneficial. In arid regions, inter-cropping is possible only during the rainy season, whereas winter vegetables are feasible in irrigated areas. 
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Pomegranate

Introduction

Common Name: Anar

Botanical Name: Punica Granatum

Origin: Iran, Afghanistan, India

The pomegranate tree is native from Himalayas in northern India to the Iran and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region of Asia, Africa and Europe. An attractive shrub or small tree, to 20 or 30 ft recorded height, the pomegranate is much-branched, more or less spiny, and extremely long-lived. It has a strong tendency to sucker from the base. The leaves are evergreen or deciduous, opposite or in whorls of 5 or 6, short-stemmed, oblong-lanceolate. Showy flowers are home on the branch tips singly or as many as 5 in a cluster. The fruit has a tough, leathery skin or rind, basically yellow more or less overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red. The interior is separated by membranous walls and white spongy tissue (rag) into compartments packed with transparent sacs filled with tart, flavourful, fleshy, juicy, red, pink or whitish pulp (technically the aril). In each sac, there is one white or red, angular, soft or hard seed. The seeds represent about 52% of the weight of the whole fruit. The fruit also was used in many ways as it is today and was featured in Egyptian mythology and art, praised in the Old Testament of the Bible and in the Babylonian Talmud, and it was carried by desert caravans for the sake of its thirst-quenching juice. It traveled to central and southern India from Iran about the first century A.D. and was reported growing in Indonesia in 1416. It has been widely cultivated throughout India and drier parts of Southeast Asia, Malaya, the East Indies and tropical Africa. The most important growing regions are Egypt, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, India, Burma and Saudi Arabia. There are some commercial orchards in Israel on the coastal plain and in the Jordan Valley.

The name "pomegranate" comes from two Latin words for "seeded" and "apple", which makes a lot of sense, given that a pomegranate looks like and apple and is full of seeds. The pomegranate fruit grows on a small tree or shrub. The tree is native to the area of Persia in the Middle East, but it is now grown further abroad, including in California and Arizona. The most promising of these is the Wonderful which is the only pomegranate now being grown commercially in California.

The interior seeds are surrounded by spongy pulp, and the mess of them together makes the pomegranate particularly difficult to work with.

Steeped in history and romance and almost in a class by itself, the pomegranate, Punica granatum L., belongs to the family Punicaceae which includes only one genus and two species, the other one, little-known, being P. protopunica Balf. peculiar to the island of Socotra.

Despite its ancient background, the pomegranate has acquired only a relatively few commonly recognized vernacular names apart from its many regional epithets in India, most of which are variations on the Sanskrit dadimaor dalim, and the Persian dulim or dulima. By the French it is called grenade; by the Spanish, granada (the fruit), granado (the plant); by the Dutch, granaatappel, and Germans, granatapfel; by the Italians, melogranato, melograno granato, pomo granato, or pomo punico. In Indonesia, it is gangsalan; in Thailand, tab tim; and in Malaya, delima. Brazilians know it as roma, romeira or romazeira. The Quecchi Indian name in Guatemala is granad. The Samoan name is limoni. The generic term, Punica, was the Roman name for Carthage from whence the best pomegranates came to Italy.