Plate 1. Spineless variety suggested for commercial orchards.

Plate 2. Spiny variety suggested for commercial orchards.

Plate 3. "Zukini" a red-fruited spineless cultivar suitable for export.

Plate 4. Individual mini-catchments.

Plate 5. Beles on contour furrows.

Plate 6. Beles on bench terraces.

Plate 7. Planting layout for fruit production.

Plate 8. Beles orchard with maize intercrop.

Plate 9. Orchard for extensive forage production.

Plate 10. Forage production on raised broad beds.

Plate 11. Black soft rot of beles.

Plate 12. Cladode swelling of beles.

Plate 13. Golden spot.

Plate 14. Beles pruning tool or derho.

Plate 15. Modified pruning saw.

Plate 16. Ripening stages of beles fruit.

Plate 17. Tender beles pads ready for harvest.

Plate 18. Pollarding of old beles plants.