Crop Plans / Orchards & fruit / Mango
Crop programme · per acreMango
The full stage-by-stage programme is below and in the PDF: what to put on, at which stage, by which method, and the pack it comes in.
When did your season start?
Answer this and the page follows your season, or skip it. Every rate, quantity and method below stays the same.
Every band, every stage.
Every band at every stage, per acre. Grey names are not VAN products, and each VAN product is shown in its real pack.
| Band | Land Preparation | Germination | Early Growth | Grand Growth | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphorus |  Green Phosphate P₂O₅ 32% · N 6% · 2.25 kg per plant · 50 kg Broadcasting or Fusion Phosphate, your choice. | ||||
| Nitrogen |  | | |||
| Potash |  |  |  | ||
| Secondary Nutrient |  | ||||
| Soil Amendment |  | ||||
| Micronutrients |  | ||||
| Foliar |  |
What to buy for your acres.
Tick the stages you are planning, set your acres, and this is the mango programme turned into bags and packs.
Tick the stages. Set your acres. Send the list.
Counts are the published per-acre rates added up across the stages you tick, multiplied by your acres. VAN confirms the final price, availability and delivery on WhatsApp.
Type the number from your soil report, or pick its band, for any of these. The plan above adds product where your land is short. For phosphorus, potash and zinc it cuts the rate by 1/4 where your reading is healthy. Nitrogen is not cut. Leave a row blank if you have no reading for it. This adjustment is a pilot.
- VL-Potash Liquid1 L pack · Grand Growth1pack · 1 L
- Cala-Mag V1 L pack · Grand Growth1pack · 1 L
- Humi Grow8 kg bag · Land Preparation1bag · 8 kg
- V-Zinc3 L pack · Early Growth2packs · 6 L
- VL-NPK1 L pack · Grand Growth1pack · 1 L
These rates are published per tree, not per acre, so they cannot be turned into bags until the orchard’s tree count and spacing are known. Vital Green works that out against your own orchard. Send your tree count and row spacing and you get the quantities back.
- Green Phosphate2.25 kg per plantLand Preparation · Broadcasting
- Vital Urea2kg per plantLand Preparation · Broadcasting
- Vital Urea0.84 kg per plantGrand Growth · Side dressing/Broadcasting
- Fusion Potash0.7 kg per plantLand Preparation · Broadcasting
- Vital Potash0.7 kg per plantMaturity · Fertigation
The message carries the list above. Add your district and VAN replies with price and the nearest dealer.
The list above reads your soil test, not just the crop.
Enter your soil report in the list above, or pick your district and it fills from the Punjab survey’s own median across 770,160 samples, and the quantities move with what your ground actually shows. On mango it uses 5 readings: Potash (K₂O), Zinc, Organic matter, pH, EC (salinity).
Not used on this crop: phosphorus (P₂O₅), boron, iron, copper, manganese. The published mango programme carries no product that supplies them.
What the mango programme puts on your field.
Per acre, from the rows published per acre only. The per-tree doses (Green Phosphate, Vital Urea, Fusion Potash, Vital Potash) are not included in this total. Published rate × the analysis on each row.
Not counted in the total above: Green Phosphate, Vital Urea, Fusion Potash, Vital Potash. Published per tree, not per acre. For a per-acre figure, multiply by the number of trees on your acre.
Crop removal figures for mango are not available. A peer-reviewed Mexican study gives per-tonne removal for 3 cultivars, but the mango programme is per tree, not per acre, so the 2 cannot be set against each other.
How much water the mango season needs.
A nutrition plan only works if the crop gets its water. Here is what the season needs, what rain normally gives, and what must come from irrigation.
No sowing date given, so this counts from mid-February, the start of VAN’s published window. Give your sowing date at the top and it uses your date instead.
Pick your district and the figures appear. They come from the nearest weather station with published normals; the station and its distance are shown.
- It is not measured with the full equation. FAO’s standard method needs humidity, wind and solar radiation. The Pakistan Meteorological Department normals this tool uses give only temperature and rain, so the reference figure uses Hargreaves, the method FAO gives for this case. It is an estimate.
- It is probably on the low side for Punjab. FAO’s crop coefficients are published for a sub-humid climate. Its own caption says relative humidity around 45% and light wind. Punjab in the dry season is drier and windier than that, and FAO’s own correction for arid climates raises the coefficient. Without humidity and wind data that correction cannot be applied, so the real need is likely higher than the figure above.
- It is what the crop uses, not what you have to pump. Nothing here allows for what a watercourse loses on the way, for water running past the roots, or for the extra needed to leach a salty soil. And the rain shown is all the rain. How much of a July downpour a field actually keeps depends on your soil and your slope.
Method: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56. Crop evapotranspiration, Table 11 (lengths of crop development stages) and Table 12 (single crop coefficients). Temperature and rainfall: WMO Climatological Standard Normals 1991–2020, Pakistan Meteorological Department. Normals, not this season. What a month is usually like, averaged over 30 years.
Nutrition decides about 1/4 of the yield. Sowing, seed, water, weeds and pests decide the rest. The farm discipline simulator scores a whole season across 10 levers. It covers wheat and potato for now, each with its own levers and its own weights. The tools still coming →
About 1/4 of the nitrogen in the bag feeds the crop. The rest leaves as gas or drains past the root.
Why it goes, what VAN builds against each loss, and the 17 nutrients and the barrel that show where your own season leaks.
The plan names a method for every row.
Broadcasting, placement, side dressing, fertigation and spray are 5 different things. Read what each one means before you open the PDF.
▸ Tap a method to read it
Spread evenly over the soil surface, before or at sowing, and worked in by tillage or by the first irrigation. For a basal granule it is the last choice: drill it if you can.
A separate rule applies to Vital Urea. Vital Urea is a coated slow-release urea and is applied by drilling at sowing (beside and below the seed, never touching it), by side dressing, or by broadcasting, never by fertigation. The fertigation rows in the nitrogen band are commodity urea, which is a different material.
VAN’s phosphorus products.
Programme focus: P-K. The PDF names which products go on, at which stage. These are the VAN products in those nutrient groups.
These are per-acre programmes, not a prescription for your field.
A nutrition plan is built on a typical crop and a typical soil. It is not a substitute for a soil test. VAN prepares farm-specific plans against a grower's own soil analysis, yield target and the other variables that decide a rate. Ask for one on WhatsApp or at kisan@van.com.pk.