How training and pruning is done in pomegranate ?

Fruits are produced at the end of shoot growth that emerges from mature wood. After the harvest is finished in December, annual pruning is done to promote new shoots on all sides by eliminating one third of the previous season’s growth. Dry, diseased, and cross-cross branches, as well as root suckers, are removed. The tree is trained to produce a single stem up to 60 cm in length with three or four scaffold branches. The fruit will be larger if the flower clusters are thinned.