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SKUAST-J organizes Awareness Programme on Rejuvenation of old orchards 3/26/2015 12:33:17 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Mar 25: The Division of Fruit Science, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, SKUAST-J organized one day training cum awareness programme on 25th of March, 2015 at Akhnoor, Jammu under Mission for Integrated Development in Horticulture (MIDH) project on "Training and demonstration of rejuvenation technology on old and unproductive orchards in Jammu province".Dr. Parshant Bakshi, Principal Investigator of the project highlighted the importance of rejuvenation of old/unproductive orchards so that a commercial and quality produce could be harvested. "Decline in productivity of orchard could largely be due to poor photosynthetic efficiency besides several other factors including age of the orchard, dense and intermingling branches, neglected and poor management of orchard", he added. The participants (HDO's, farmers and orchardists) were educated about various methods of rejuvenation of old/unproductive trees that are no longer in bearing or bear very little. Bakshi deliberated on the importance of imparting vigour to the plant so that the plant can bear to its maximum and the farmer in return gets a good value per unit of land. The farmers/orchardists were apprised about the success story of rejuvenation by division of Fruit Science in the mango orchards of Jammu and the same work will be taken up in aonla under this project.Dr. Bakshi also responded to the queries of the orchardists/farmers and the farmers/orchardists found the training programme relevant to their needs. Dr. Akash Sharma briefed the participants on the importance of cultural practices and pruning of aonla trees under Jammu subtropics. He discussed about the various disorders and diseases of aonla and methods to overcome these so as to get good quality fruit. The training was conducted under the able guidance of Dr. J.P Sharma, Director Research, SKUAST-J. The training programme was highly appreciated by the farmers and they requested for more such type of trainings in the near future. The other officials and students of university present were B.N.Singh (JTA), Pradeep Gupta, Manish Bakshi, Rafiq Ahmed and Ajitpal Singh.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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