ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON HORTICULTURAL TECHNIQUES
‘Whatever We Do to Nature
We Do It to Ourselves’
The Department of Botany organized a One day Regional workshop on Horticultural techniques on 14th Dec,2012. Forty five students from different Colleges participated in this Workshop. Mr. P. Balaji Kumar, Horticulture officer, Andhra Pradesh and Dr. B. Siva Kumari Head, Department Botany explained various techniques in Horticulture. Mr.Dhana raj, Mr. K. Srinivasa Rao technical persons from Dr. YSR Horticulture University explained the techniques in this field.
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| PARTICIPANT SHARING HER OPINION ON WORKSHOP |
To extend the realms of knowledge of students from what they read in their books to actual field of work and practical problems they encounter, the Dept. of Botany always strived to expose them to filed, plants and visualized what they are studying.
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| PARTICIPANTS FROM DIFFERENT COLLEGES |
In this connection various seminars by the resources person who have been working in the fields and are facing the current transitional trends have been conducted. Today is one such day and we are elated to have one day Workshop on Horticulture Techniques and to have our resource persons Ms. N. Sujatha AD, Dept of Horticulture, VMC, Vijayawada, MR. P. Balaji Kumar, Horticulture officer, Vijayawada Division, Dr. B. Siva Kumari, Head, Dept of Botany and Technical persons from Dr. YSR Horticulture University to open up our minds to different techniques in Horticulture by which we can propagate rare varieties and important ornamental plants.
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| GREEN HOUSE |
Sciences of all fields have been working together for a better world. And this Interdisciplinary nature of science and technology is now the very need of the hour. In this connection we need to encompass and improvise our basic and core sciences with the new trends on the rise.
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| PARTICIPANTS |
India with diverse soil and climate comprising several agro-ecological regions provides ample opportunity to grow a variety of horticulture crops. These crops form a significant part of total agricultural produce in the country comprising of fruits, vegetables, root and tuber crops, flowers, ornamental plants, medicinal and aromatic plants, spices, condiments, plantation crops and mushrooms.
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| GRAFTING |
It is estimated that all the Horticulture crops put together cover nearly 11.6 million hectares area with an annual production of 91 million tones. Though these crops occupy hardly 7% of the cropped area they contribute over 18% to the gross agricultural output in the country.
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| PARTICIPANTS DOING APPROACHING GRAFTING |
To meet the growing population needs India is in dire need of new trends in food production and horticulture is one such way that could pave way to serve this purpose.
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| PARTICIPANTS DOING AIR LAYERING TECHNIQUE |
This Workshop intends to create an academic space and an awareness in each on of us that by our learning skills we may able to do the things by our hand and have the tendency to do many things in the society which will inspire many young and come forward and support the development of our society.
In this connection I thank the members of the Management, Department staff members, Microbiology staff members for their support for organizing this Workshop.
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| STAFF IN THE GRAFTING TECHNIQUE |
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| AIR LAYERING |
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| TECHNICAL PERSON EXPLAINING THE TECHNIQUES |
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| STAFF FROM OTHER COLLEGE SHARING OPINIONS |
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