Sharas Singh:A Horticulturist

17/11/2017

Mango---
Flower bud formation takes place 2-3 months prior to flowering.
Flowering occurs from Nov-Dec to Feb-Mar depending upon locality and variety and continues for about 2-3 weeks. Flowers are polygamous and s*x ratio can be improved by application of NAA 200 ppm at flower bud initiation stage. Do not plough the orchard soil in the month of November because it will disturb the carbon nitrogen ratio (C:N ratio) in the soil subsequently more vegetative shoots will emerge in the place of reproductive shoots. Plant should be given rest by stopping irrigations at least 2-3 months before flowering for
maximum fruit bud development.

07/10/2017

Good morning

30/09/2017

28/09/2017

Once a Worried Farmer, Now Inspiring Villagers

Keshav Prasad, a farmer of Mahogni village of Jamalpur block in Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh, owns 1.5 acre cultivated land adjacent to river Ganga. Vegetable cultivation is main source of his livelihood, but the declining production and income was a cause of great worry for him.

On the advice of a close one, Keshav Prasad visited Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR), Varanasi, a premier institute of ICAR, to see and learn new production technologies for vegetables crops. He was impressed with the cultivation of cowpea. He acquired all relevant information for the cultivation of this remunerative crop. Then, he prepared his land under the supervision of scientists of IIVR. They demonstrated two varieties of cowpea Kashi Unnati and Kashi Kanchan to him. He started the cultivation of these cowpea varieties in an area of 1.5 hectare. The sowing was done in the month of May on ridges following the methods as suggested by the scientists.

He harvested tender green pods at right stage and sold in the market. He was able to catch early market from July first week and got higher market price @ Rs. 28/- per kg. Regular picking of green cowpea pod fetched him a return of 1.50 lakh by September. Later, instead of selling green pod he left the crop in field for seeds. Thus he was able to get about 3.5 quintal of cowpea seeds by October end, which he later sold @ Rs. 90/- to150/- per kg and thus again he received a return of about Rs. 0.50 lakh. The total cost of cultivation, transportation and marketing of cowpea was calculated as Rs. 40000/-. Thus, within a period of one season, Keshav Prasad earned a net return of Rs. 1.60 lakh from an area of 1.5 hectare with a single crop of cowpea.

Now, Keshav Prasad is one of the cheerful farmers in the region. He is enjoying vegetable cultivation with his family. He had brought two buffaloes and three cows from the earning of cowpea. Selling of milk is other source of his earning. Keshav Prasad is inspiring other farmers in his village to grow cowpea and other vegetable crops.

Source- IIVR Varanasi

28/09/2017

Tomato is an important commercial vegetable crop for farmers. Tomato farmers are facing various problems due to the outbreak of pests and diseases related to climate change, labor shortage and borewells going dry etc. In the last few years, late blight has emerged as a devastating disease for tomato farmers in Kharif and late Kharif season. Cost of inputs has gone up and labor availability has become a major problem. Farmers are increasingly finding it difficult to cope with the rise in input costs and other biotic and abiotic problems facing them.

So to mitigate these problems, IIHR, Bangalore initiated technology demonstration on plastic mulching, drip irrigation& fertigation in tomato crop. The technology involves
1- split application of nutrients along with irrigation water at low concentration which increases the efficacy of fertigation through decreased quantity of applied fertilizers, because fertilizers are applied directly to the root zone
2- improved timing of fertilization, due to more frequent application which makes it possible to match plant requirement at various crop growth stages
3- improved distribution of fertilizers with minimum loss through leaching beyond the root zone or losses through run-off.
Source- IIHR Banglore

28/09/2017

Boost the productivity and yield of cucurbitaceous crops by foliar application of boron

21/07/2017

Wow

Ranking of Agricultural Universities 2016-17.
http://www.icar.org.in/files/071715062804_0au-ranking-2017.pdf

25/06/2017

ICAR-IISR Interventions helped to break all time record of sugar production in Uttar Pradesh.
See more at http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/12772

30/09/2016

ICAR-IIRR and CSIR-CCMB jointly Awarded S&T Innovations for Rural Development-2013

ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad and CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad were jointly awarded the prestigious CSIR Award “S&T Innovations for Rural Development” during the CSIR Platinum Jubilee Foundation Day function at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 26th September 2016.

http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/11616

21/09/2016

21/09/2016

ऐसे हो रही है #किसान की आय दुगनी:-
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