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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Horticulture × Author: Asheesh Kumar × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2020 ×
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    Effect of organic and inorganic nutrients application in soil on Kinnow Mandarin
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-10) Asheesh Kumar; Rana, G.S
    The present study entitled “Effect of organic and inorganic nutrients application in soil on kinnow mandarin” was carried out at Experimental Orchard and Postharvest Technology Laboratory of the Department of Horticulture CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during 2020-21. In this experiment three types of organic manures viz. FYM, vermicompost and PSB were taken. This experiment comprising thirteen treatments and it was laid out as RBD with three replications. Among the different organic manures vermicompost gave the best results followed by Azotobacter, PSB and FYM. The growth parameters viz. flower per twig, initial fruit set, fruit drop, final fruit retention, number of fruits per plant, fruit weight, fruit size, peel thickness and juice content were maximum with the application RDF 100 % vermicompost @ 5kg per plant + Azotobacter @ 75 ml and PSB @ 75 ml.