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Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan

Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, was established on 1st December, 1985 with the objective to promote education, research and extension education in the fields of Horticulture, Forestry and allied disciplines. Late Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the first Chief Minister and the architect of Himachal Pradesh perceived the importance of Horticulture and Forestry to develop and improve the State economy which led to the establishment of this University. Its history lies in erstwhile Himachal Agricultural College, Solan, established in 1962 and affiliated to the Panjab University. It became one of the campuses of Agriculture Complex of Himachal Pradesh University on its formation in 1970. Consequent upon the establishment of Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in 1978, this campus became its Horticulture Complex and finally in 1985, assumed the status of a State University, being the only University in the country engaged exclusively in teaching, research and extension in Horticulture and Forestry. The University is located at Nauni in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, 13 km from Solan on Solan-Rajgarh Road, at an elevation of 1300 metres above mean sea level. Solan town is situated on national highway (NH-22) and is well connected by train and bus services. The University has four constituent colleges, out of which, two are located at the main campus Nauni, one for horticulture and the other for forestry, having 9 and 7 departments, respectively. The third College i.e., College of Horticulture & Forestry is located at Neri in Hamirpur District on Nadaun-Hamirpur state highway, about 6 Km from Hamirpur town and is well connected with bus service. The college offers three Undergraduate Degree Programmes i.e. BSc (Hons.) Horticulture, BSc (Hons.) Forestry and B. Tech. Biotechnology and MSc degree programme in a few subjects. The fourth college i.e. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Thunag (Mandi) is located at Thunag District Mandi. This college offer BSc (Hons.) Horticulture and BSc (Hons.) Forestry degree programme. In addition, there are five Regional Research Stations, 12 Satellite Stations and five Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) situated in different zones of the State.

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Subject: Biostatistics × Author: VERMA, GEETA × Start date: 1984 ×
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    “Statistical investigations on kinnow mandarin (Citrus reticulate Blenco.) production in Himachal Pradesh”,
    (UHF,NAUNI,SOLAN, 2017) VERMA, GEETA; MAHAJAN, P.K.
    ABSTRACT The study was carried out in Kangra and Sirmour districts of Himachal Pradesh with special reference to comparison of different sample allocation methods in combination with various stratification rules for determination of optimum strata boundaries. For this purpose, four methods of construction of strata boundaries viz., equalization of strata total, equalization of cum. , equalization of cum. {r(y)+f(y)} and equalization of cum. rules were used and it was observed that variance term worked out to be least in Neyman allocation and hence this allocation method was retained for further investigation. The critical examining of the results also revealed that for varying sample size, equalization of cum. provided the least variance, therefore, the study inferred that sampling methodology for estimation, “Statistical investigations on kinnow Mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blenco.) production in Himachal Pradesh” should be in conjunction with cum. can be used for estimation of kinnow production. To assess the relative contribution of various morphological characters in increasing the kinnow yield, 104 trees from location-1 and 96 trees from location -2 were randomly selected in the year 2014-15. F-test suggested that there was significant variation among all the characters between these two locations except fruit weight and LD ratio. It was also observed that number of flowers per branch, number of fruits per branch, plant girth and fruit weight contributes significantly towards the kinnow yield. In relation to the socio- economic status of kinnow orchardists, it was observed that the contribution of fruit crops towards the gross farm income had shown an increasing trend, while the contribution of field crops had shown a declining trend with the increase in farm size. At overall level, fruits crop accounted for 62.68 percent while field crops accounted only 37.32 percent of the total gross farm income. In relation to the price spread of kinnow under different marketing channels in the Himachal Pradesh indicated that producers’ share in consumers’ rupee was highest in channel-IV (81%), followed by channel-III (51%) and channel-I (43%), therefore, the marketing efficiency was found maximum (4.35) when farmers sold their produce directly to consumers.