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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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    Studies on the effect of growing media on seed germination and seedling growth of papaya (Carica papaya L.)
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Jyoti; Beniwal, B.S.
    The present study entitled “Studies on effect of growing media on seed germination and seedling growth of papaya (Carica papaya L.)” was carried out at experimental orchard of Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during the rainy season of 2015. Different growing media combinations comprising of sand, garden soil, sand + garden soil (1:1), sand + vermicompost (2:1), sand + FYM (1:1), garden soil + vermicompost (2:1), garden soil + FYM (1:1) with and without cocopeat were prepared and filled in polyethylene bags. The experiment comprising of fourteen treatments was carried out in completely randomized (factorial) with three replications under two growing conditions viz. polyhouse and open conditions during rainy season. Five representative plants were randomly selected from each replication to record data on the various parameters. It was observed that garden soil + vermicompost (2:1) + 2 cm top layer of cocopeat gave minimum days for germination, highest rate of emergence, germination, germination index and maximum number of leaves, stem girth, seedling height, root length, root fresh weight, shoot fresh weight and plant fresh weight under open field condition. Highest survival and minimum days to transplanting were also observed in soil + vermicompost (2:1) + 2 cm top layer of cocopeat under open field conditions. The interaction between growing media and growing conditions was found nonsignificant.