Division of Fruit Crops

Brief Research Achievements:

From long term experiments of 5 to 10 years, important cost effective technologies were developed such as organic farming through waste recycling as vermicompost, arecanut + livestock mixed farming models for different holdings, nutrient recommendations for HYV's and cropping system models, water harvesting structures, drip irrigation and fertigation and sustainable cropping system models involving arecanut and valued added intercrops like pepper, banana, cocoa, coffee, medicinal and aromatic crops, and vanilla.

Fingerprinting of guava and papaya genotypes Validation of markers in papaya Development of genomic resources in pomegranate

•Developed the summer pruning technique in high density orchard of mango and standardized application time and dose of paclobutrazol for regulation of fruiting in mango in Tarai area of U.P.

•Isolated and purified the mango malformation from malformed panicle of mango and induced malformation like symptoms in mango by ethrel and paclobutrazol. Partial control the incidence of mango malformation by use of polyethylene covers and pruning.