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Dr. YSRHU e-Newsletter Fortnightly e-Newsletter of Dr.Y.S.R.Horticultural University

Volume-II, Issue –14 Dr.YSRHU e-Newsletter 15th —31st July, 2016

Fortnight Focus

Events Education Research Extension General

Vanam-Manam

Planting of different tree species was taken up on 29.07.2016 at

the University Head quarters, Constituent Colleges, Research Sta-

tions and KVKs of the university as part of “Vanam-Manam” pro-

gramme under Mission Harita Andhra Pradesh of the State Gov-

ernment to increase the green cover in the State to 50 per cent by

2029 from the present 26 percent. On this occasion

Dr B.M.C.Reddy, Vice Chancellor inaugurated the programme by

planting Gulmohar saplings in the presence of University officers,

faculty members and students of College of Horticulture, Venkata-

ramannagudem.

Events

At COH, Anantharajupeta At HPT, Madakasira At HRS & KVK, Pandirimamidi At HRS, Kovvur

At University Campus

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Education

Visit of KVK site selection Committee

ICAR team for selection of site for new KVK at Vonipenta near Mydu-kur, YSR District along with Dr. B.M.C.Reddy, Vice-chancellor and Dr.R.V.S.K.Reddy, Director of Extension has visited the proposed site on 30.07.2016. Later the team visited College of Horticulture, Anan-tharajupeta. Dr. K. Gopal, Associate Dean explained about the activi-ties in the campus to Dr. S.N.Puri, Former vice-Chancellor, Central Ag-ricultural University, Imphal, Dr. Y.G.Prasad, Director, ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Dr. B.B.Bhosle, Director of Extension Education, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani, Maharastra and Dr. G.Suresh, Principal scientist, ICAR- Indian Institute of Oil Seeds Re-search, Hyderabad.

Exposure visits

Dr. V. Suchitra, Assistant Professor (Hort.), Dr N. Emmanuel, Assistant Professor (Ento.), Miss G. Nissiflora, Teaching Associate (Hort.) and Miss B. Swarnalatha, Teaching Associate (Ento.), College of Horticul-ture, Venkataramannagudem arranged an exposure visit to second year UG and first year PG students to show the plantation crops like Coffee, Rubber, Palmyrah, Cashewnut, processing and various pests on these crops at HRS, Pandirimamidi.

Dr. T. Suseela, Assistant Professor (Hort.), College of Horticulture, Venkataramannagudem arranged an exposure visit to first year B Sc (Hons.) Horticulture students to Kadiyapu lanka on 23.07.2016 to show various ornamentals, their utility in landscaping and also the new concepts i.e. vertical gar-dening, terrarium etc.

At HRS, Vijayarai At MRS, Nuzvid At CRS, Tirupati At CRS, Petlur

Sri.Chitala Ramachandra Reddy,

MLA, Piler planting neem sapling

at HPT, Kalikiri

At HRS, Ananthapur At HRS, Mahanandi At HRS, Anantharajupeta

Research

RTS Beverage from Palmyrah fruit

Blended RTS beverage from palmyrah ripe fruit product from palmyrah was stan-

dardised by Sri. P C Vengaiah, Scientist (FST), HRS, Pandirimamidi which is having

good potential to promote as health drink.

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Technology assessment in betelvine

Dr. P. Rama Devi, Scientist (Pl. Pathology) and Mrs. P. Sunitha, Scientist (Ento.), HRS, Venkataramannagudem visited betelvine demonstration plots being conducted under technology assessment and refinement in farmers’ fields at Madduru and Royyru, Penamaluru Mandal, Krishna district and interacted with the farmers along with officers of Department of Horticul-ture on 22.7.2016.

Training programmes

Sri. M.Ravindra Babu, Scientist (Hort), HRS, Venkataramannagudem at-tended a training programme as resource person on 16.07.2016 at Chada-rasikunta village, Nalajarla mandal organized by Department of Horticul-ture and delivered a lecture on ‘Canopy management in cashew’.

Inducing maleness in teasel gourd

Teasel gourd (Momordica subangulata ssp. renigera), is a dioecious plant species which gives male and fe-male flowers on different plants. In an experiment at Horticultural Research Station, Venkataramanna-gudem female plants of teasel gourd were sprayed with different concentrations of Silver nitrate which has the ability to induce maleness in flowering plants. Silver nitrate at 400 ppm concentration induced the maleness and produced hermaphrodite flowers with viable pollen.

Germplasm evaluation

In a research trial on gladiolus germplasm at HRS, Anantharajupeta with

regard to corm characters maximum corm weight of 57.61 g was recorded in

AC.No.7 followed by Bindiya (57.61g), Yellow Star (53.80gr), Arka Amar

(49.24g), Masca Gani (46.72g), Amsterdam (46.50), and minimum corm

weight was noted in Arka Kesari(8.0g), and American Beauty (7.0g), similarly

maximum cormel weight of 2.23g was recorded in Swarnima followed by

Amsterdam (2.0g) and minimum in Urmi (0.7g each).

In a trial on “Evaluation of promising varieties of papaya” at HRS, Anan-

tharajupeta lowest plant height (258.42 cm) was recorded in TFCP-3 fol-

lowed by Red lady (260.24 cm). Number of days taken for flowering was

less (123.75days) in Red lady followed by TFCP-3 (126.00 days). The in-

cidence of PRSV was less in TFCP-2 (9.67%) followed by TFCP-4

(17.85%) and higher in Red Lady (41.23%). TFCP-2 and TFCP-4 are dio-

ecious types where as TFCP-3 and Red lady are gynodioecious types.

In another experiment for standardization of hot water technique for the management of post har-

vest losses due to fruit fly and anthracnose on three commercial varieties of mango viz., Beneshan,

Banglora and Neelam at HRS, Anantharajupeta, it was observed that zero percent damage of fruit

fly and 3– 9 % damage due to anthracnose was recorded at 480 C for 60 minutes without causing

any deleterious effects on fruit peel colour, texture, TSS and acidity up to 7 days in Neelam, 10 days

in Beneshan and 14 days in Bengaluru.

Extension

Hermaphrodite

flower Female flower

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Dr. R. Rajya Lakshmi Scientist (Hort.) & Head, MRS, Nuzvid attended a

training programmes on ‘Mango rejuvenation’ as resource person on

20.07.2016 at Venkatayapalam, on 21.07.2016 at Kanumuru, on

23.07.2016 at Agiripalli and Bapulapadu along with Smt. Sujatha, ADH,

Krishna dist.

Dr.K.M. Yuvaraj, Sr.Scientist (Hort.) & Head, Cashew Research Station, Bapatla attended a training programme as resource person on 25.07.2016 at Regional Horticulture Training Institute, Eluru and delivered lecture on “Advanced production technology on cashew”.

Sri V. Govardhana Rao, Scientist (Pl Path.), Dr.K.Ravi Kumar, SMA (Horti.),

KVK, Pandirimamidi conducted a training on ‘Advanced technologies in Ba-

nana’ at Gangampalem village of Devipatnam mandal on 26.07.2016 in col-

laboration with Reliance Foundation, Kakinada. Later conducted method

demonstration on bunch covering with poly propylene covers and 2000

polypropylene covers to five beneficiaries, poly beds for vermicomposting & Azolla cultivation for

ten beneficiaries were distributed by Reliance Foundation.

On 26.07.2016 Sri V.Govardhan Rao, Scientist (Pl Path.), Dr.K.Ravi Kumar,

SMA (Horti.), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pandirimamidi conducted training &

demonstration programme on “Nutritional kitchen garden’ at Gangam-

palem village of Devipatnam mandal and provided kitchen garden seed kits

to 50 tribal women.

Dr. K. Subramanyam, Principal Scientist (Pl.Pathology) & Head, HRS, Mahanandi attended a farm-

ers interaction meeting at Pandurangapuram and imparted training to farmers on “Cultivation

practices of chilli, papaya and banana” organized by Department of Horticulture, Nandyal on

21.07.2016.

Dr. M. Mutyala Naidu, Senior Scientist (Hort.) & Head, HRS, Darsi attended training programme as

resource person on vermi compost making which was conducted by DWMA, Prakasham district on

20.07.2016 at HRS, Darsi.

Dr. E. Karunasree, Sr. Scientist & Head & Sri Ch. Kiran Kumar, Scientist

(SSAC), KVK, Venkataramannagudem conducted training programme on

NFSM Redgram. In this programme scientific staff of KVK, Venkataraman-

nagudem explained about the importance of Pulses and distributed red

gram seed and other inputs to the beneficiaries on 18.07.2016.

Dr. M. Raja Naik, Asst. Professor (Hort.), College of Horticulture, Ananthara-

jupeta attended a training programme on “Bindu mariyu tumparla

sedyampy avagahana sadassu mariyu chamanthi saagu paddhatulapy rythu

sikshana” at Pendlimarri on 21.07.2016 organized by APMIP.

Dr. T. Suseela, Assistant Professor (Hort.), College of Horticulture, Venkataramannagudem

attended a training program as resource person and delivered a lecture on “Urban Greening” to

new entrants of Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA), Andhra Pradesh held at Andhra

Pradesh Human Resource Development Institute, Bapatla.

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Dr. E.Karunasree, Sr. Scientist & Head, KVK, Venkataramannagudem distrib-

uted chilli seedlings on 18.07.2016, greengram and Redgram seed on

26.07.2016 to the farmers of Jeelugumilli under Tribal Subplan (TSP).

Dr. E.Karunasree, Sr. Scientist & Head, KVK, Venkataramannagudem con-

ducted a training programme on Apiary at K. R. Puram on 21.07.2016 and

distributed Apiary boxes to the tribal farmers.

Diagnostic visits

Dr. K.Ravi Kumar, SMA (Horti.), KVK, Pandirimamidi visited medicinal

plants nurseries and demo blocks maintained by tribal farmers with the

support of Kovel Foundation with buy back arrangement for purchase

of produce by Dabur India Ltd. at Tallapaka & Bandapalli villages of

Rampachodavaram mandal on 27.07.2016 and suggested control meas-

ures for the pests and diseases observed.

Sri Ch. Kiran Kumar, Scientist (SSAC), KVK, Venkataramannagudem con-

ducted field diagnostic visit on NFSM Redgram at Telikicherla village on

30.07.2016 and suggested to apply Neem soap to prevent early inci-

dence of pests.

Sri. M. Ravindra Babu, Scientist (Horti.), HRS, Venkataramannagudem

made a diagnostic field visit to tomato crop grown under polyhouse at

Rallakunta village, Dwaraka Tirumala mandal, West Godavari dist on

30.07.2016 and observed poor fruit setting due to high temperatures.

Nematode infestation in the polyhouse grown tomato crop was also

noticed and suggested to apply Carbofuran 3G granules along with

neem cake. Also suggested to grow marigold plants here and there in the poly house as trap crop.

General

Nursery Accreditation

NHB Team for Accreditation and Rating of Horticultural Nurseries visited KVK, Pandirimamidi on 19.07.2016. The Team members inspected the scion blocks and nursery activity in cashew, mango, acid lime and other minor forest species and interacted with Dr.R.V.S.K.Reddy, Director of Ex-tension.

NHB Team comprising of Dr. Hoshiar Singh, Deputy Director, NHB, Dr. N. Kumar, Retired Dean and Professor (Horti.), TNAU, Coimbatore, Dr. Sri-latha, Asst. Prof (Horti.), S.V. Agri. College, Tirupati and Mr. Subba Reddy, HO, Railway Kodur visited HRS, Ananthrajupeta Fruit Nursery as a part of Nursery accreditation on 22.07.2016. They visited various scion blocks of guava, mango and acid lime and interacted with the staff.

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Nursery Accreditation Committee accompanied by Dr. L.Naram Naidu, Zonal Research Head, Coastal Zone-II, Dr. K.M.Yuvaraj, Sr. Scientist (Horti.) & Head visited Cashew Research Station, Bapatla on 21.07.2016 for accreditation to cashew nursery. The members inspected the mother blocks and nursery area. Dr. K.M. Yuvaraj explained about the year wise production of elite cashew plant material and maintenance of mother blocks in old and new area.

Meetings attended

Dr. D. Srihari, Dean of Student Affairs attended the State Level NSS

Planning, Training & Review meeting on 18th &19th July, 2016 with

all Programme Co-ordinators at JNTUA, Ananthapuramu.

Visitors

Dr. G.C. Satisha, Principal Scientist, Soil Science and Agricultural Chemis-try, IIHR, Bengaluru accompanied by Dr.E.Karunasree, Programme Coor-dinator, KVK, V.R.Gudem visited Bio-fertilizer Production Unit, HRS, V.R.Gudem on 26.7.2016. Dr. P.Rama Devi, Scientist (Plant Pathology) ex-plained about the bio fertilizer production activities being taken up under RKVY Project.

Dr. D. Srihari, Dean of Student Affairs visited HRS, Ananthapuramu on

20.07.2016 and given suggestions regarding nursery management to the

field staff. Dr. B. Srinivasulu, Senior Scientist & Head, HRS, Anantapuramu

explained about the progress of research trials. Dr. D. Srihari planted Al-

mond seedling at the research station.

TV & Radio programmes

K. Mamatha, Scientist (Hort.), HRS, Kovvur attended Phone-in-live programme on “Dumpapantala

Saagu” at Doordarshan Kendra, Vijayawada on 19.07.2016.

Publications

Ch. Ruth, T. Nagalakshmi and K. Gopal, 2016. Studies on epidemiology of major diseases of horticul-

tural crops, Plant Archives. Vol -16(1) pp.65-70.

Awards

Smt. R.Naga Lakshmi, Scientist (Hort.), HRS, Kovvur received first best Poster award from Dr.T.Janakiram, ADG (Horticulture), ICAR during National Confer-

ence on “Fruit Breeding in Tropics and Subtropics - An Indian Perspective” organized by ICAR-IIHR, Hessaraghatta, Bengaluru.

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