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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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Author: SHARMA, PRIYANKA × End date: 2020 × Start date: 2010 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF NATURAL FARMING IN HAMIRPUR DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (NAUNI,UHF, 2020-11) SHARMA, PRIYANKA; SHARMA, SUBHASH
    ABSTRACT The present study entitled “Economic Analysis of Natural Farming in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh”. 15 farmers each from four blocks i.e. Sujanpur, Nadaun, Hamirpur and Bijhari of Hamirpur district were selected for the study by using Simple Random sampling technique. Results revealed that literacy rate was 85.41 per cent with literacy index of 3.30 showing good quality of education. 71.51 per cent of the households were engaged in agriculture followed by service (15.48%) and business (12.92%). Average number of workers was 4.05 in study area. Average cultivated area was 0.56 ha, out of which 0.28 ha, area was under Natural Farming and 0.28 ha area was under conventional farming. The cropping intensity was 192.85 per cent. The average number of livestock was 5.07 out of which local cow was 10.50 per cent and improved cow was 24.99 per cent. There were four major crop combinations under Natural Farming system in Rabi season i.e. Cereals-Vegetables, Cereals-Pulses-Vegetables, Cereals-Pulses and Cereals. In Kharif season crop combinations under natural farming were Cereals-Pulses and Cereals. The major crops grown under conventional farming system were Maize and Wheat. In Rabi season, cost of cultivation of different crop combinations under Natural Farming i.e. Cereals-Pulses, Cereals, Cereals-Pulses-Vegetables and CerealsVegetables were Rs.42890.23/ha, Rs 39884.42/ha, Rs 49034.72/ha and Rs 40704.82/ha, respectively. For Kharif season cost of cultivation for Cereals-Pulses was (Rs 41808.14/ha) and Rs 39303.91/ha for Cereals. Percentage decrease in cost under NF over CF varied between 5 to 22 per cent in Rabi season and 5 to 10 per cent in Kharif season. Percentage increase in yield in NF over CF varied between 1.23 to 1.87 per cent in Rabi season and 2.16 to 3.06 per cent in Kharif season. Percentage increase in gross returns under NF over CF varied between 1.23 to 1.87 per cent in Rabi season and 2.16 to 3.06 per cent in Kharif season. Relative Economic Efficiency (REE) varied between 6 to 21 per cent in Rabi season and 8 to 11 per cent in Kharif season. Output-input ratio indicated that on investing Rs. 1, farmer got a returns of Rs. 2.00 in Cereals-vegetables, 2.26 in Cereals-pulsesvegetables, 2.06 in Cereals-pulses and Rs. 2.09 in Cereals. In Kharif season it was Rs 1.83 in Cereals-pulses and Rs 1.77 in Cereals. Sum of elasticity coefficients (∑bi = 1.15) was more than unity, which showed increasing returns to scale under Natural Farming. It means that returns increases by more than the proportional change in all inputs under Natural Farming system. The coefficients of seed, labour, natural fertilizers and plant protection solutions was more than unity, indicated all were over utilized and reduction in its usage would lead to optimize the returns. Chemicals fertilizer cost, high yield and pest attack played a significant role in the adoption of Natural Farming. Shortage of skilled labour, higher wage rates, non-availability of specialized market, fair price for produce in market were some of the problems faced by the farmers in the study area.
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    In vitro regeneration,Trillium govanianum, Rhizome, Lateral bud, Mini rhizome, Medicinal herb
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2019-12) SHARMA, PRIYANKA; CHAUHAN, ANJALI
    ABSTRACT Carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) belongs to family Caryophyllaceae and is native of the Mediterranean region. It is one of the most popular and commercially important cut flower. The commercial production of carnation is due to its excellent keeping quality, broad range of colors, shapes, size and fragrance, potential to withstand long distance transportation. Presently, in order to obtain excellent quality of cut flower throughout the year, nutrients viz., N P K are supplied through chemical fertilizer. Excessive and indiscriminate use of these chemical fertilizers not only affects soil health and environment but also pose extra debt on farmer’s pocket. Therefore, there is a need to standardize the optimum dose of nutrition by balancing organic and inorganic fertilizers which proves out to be good for soil health and environment. So, the present investigations were undertaken to isolate potential endophytic bacterial isolates from roots of carnation plants and their characterization for efficient plant growth promoting traits. A total of 97 endophytic bacteria were isolated from the root samples of carnation. Out of 97 isolates, 52 isolates were P- solubilizers and siderophore producers and 50 were IAA producers. Finally, from the total only two best endophytic bacterial isolates SR-1 and NH-3 were selected for polyhouse trial, on the basis of P-solubilization, siderophore production, IAA production , growth on nitrogen free media, antagonism against Fusarium oxysporium and Rhizoctonia solani, HCN production and lytic enzyme production and hence characterized morpho-biochemically and by 16S rDNA sequencing. The application of 75% NP +SR-1 and 75% NP + NH-3 not only registered the tremendous increase in all plant parameters but also increased the available NPK in soil. Thus, the endophytic bacterial isolates have enormous potential to act as a multifunctional biofertilizers, biostimulant and bioprotectant for carnation.
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    STUDIES ON SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PARASITIZATION POTENTIAL OF Aphelinus asychis Walker AGAINST GREEN PEACH APHID, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) IN BELL PEPPER
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2019-08) SHARMA, PRIYANKA; VERMA, S C
    ABSTARCT The present investigations entitled “Studies on spatial distribution and parasitisation potential of Aphelinus asychis Walker against green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) in Bell pepper” were conductedduring the year 2018-2019 at Dr. Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. During the study period, M. persicae and its parasitoid, A. asychis and A.matricariae populations followed negative binomial distribution throughout the season. Taylor’s power equation for M. persicae, A. asychis and A.matricariae were σ² = 6.97X1.531 (R2 = 0.931), σ² = 3.013X1.098 (R2 = 0.867) and σ² = 4.29X1.282 (R2 = 0.90) during 2018-2019, respectively. Iwao’s patchiness regression was X* = 45.12 + 1.333X (R2 = 0.853), X* = 1.485 + 1.375X (R2 =0.784) and X* = 5.406 + 1.195X (R2 =0.767) during 2018-2019, respectively. Optimum number of samples required for the green peach aphid, M. persicae, A. asychis and A.matricariae were 261.1, 332.5 and 474 during 2018-2019, respectively at 20 per cent precision level. The egg to adult emergence period, pre-oviposition period, oviposition period, post-oviposition period, fecundity, sex ratio (F:M) was 16.23±0.45, 1±0.00, 6.6±0.40, 1.6±0.40 days, 58.8 eggs/female, 1:0.97, respectively. The highest adult longeivity (male:16.5 and female:17.75 days) was observed with 70 per cent honey solution sand lowest with distilled water (male:8.75 and female:9.75 days). The true generation time (T), the true intrinsic rate of increase (rm), doubling time, finite rate of increase (λ) and the net reproductive rate of the parasitoid, A. asychis with second instar of M. persicae was 22.02 days, 0.16 females/female/day, 2.52 days, 1.174 feamles/day and 33.32 feamles/feamle, respectively. A. asychis parasitized 20.29 per cent during 2018-2019. A hyperparasitoid, Alloxysta victrix parasitizing A. asychis between 20.00 to 27.27 per cent was recorded during 2018-2019. A. asychis was able to parasitize all the nymphal instars of M. persicae with preference to the second instar (53%) followed by first instar (46%), third instar (44%) and fourth instar (33%). A. asychis exhibited a Type-II functional response to the second instar nymph of M. persicae with attack rate and handling time was 0.034 ± 0.004 h-1 and 1.32 ± 0.23 h, respectively for the Holling disc equation. Hence, A. asychis can be utilized as one of the components in the integrated pest management programme of green peach aphid, under protected condition in Himachal Pradesh. Signature of Major Advisor S
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    STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF PLANT SPACING AND SHOOT THINNING ON Godetia grandiflora (Lindl.)
    (UHF, NAUNI, 2018-10) SHARMA, PRIYANKA; GUPTA, Y C
    ABSTRACT The present investigation entitled, “Studies on the effect of plant spacing and shoot thinning on Godetia grandiflora (Lindl.)” was carried out at the Research Farm of the Department of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP) from October 2017 to June 2018. Objective of the research was to find out the effects of plant spacing and shoot thinning for cut flower production of Godetia. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design (Factorial) with four treatment combinations replicated thrice.The observations on various growth ands flowering parameterwere recorded. Results revealed that Among three different spacing viz., 30×20 cm, 30×25 cm and 30×30 cm, plant spacing (30×25 cm) gave best result for parameters like plant height (79.89 cm), stem length of secondary branches (56.38 cm), number of cut stem per plant(9.95) and vase life (10.43 days) whereas maximum plant spread (50.71 cm), number of flowers per stem (8.17), size of flower (4.17) was recorded with spacing of 30×30 cm and yield of cut stems per plot (248.73) was recorded with spacing of 30×20 cm. Among four different shoot thinning viz., T1(no shoot thinning), T2 (4 healthy shoots retained and others thinned out), T3 (5 healthy shoots retained and others thinned out) and T4(6 healthy shoots retained and others thinned out), shoot thinning T2 with 4 healthy shoots retained and others thinned out gave best result for parameter like plant height (77.22 cm), plant spread (52.32 cm), stem length of secondary branches (54.27 cm), whereas maximum number of flowers per stem (8.11), number of cut stem per plant(11.27), size of flower (3.99 cm),vase life (9.15 days) and yield of cut stems per plot (248.73) was recorded with 5 healthy shoots retained and others thinned out. The maximum yield of cut stem per plot was found in spacing 30 × 20 cm which was found to be at par with 30 × 25 cm and shoot thinning (T3) with 5 healthy shoots retained gave more production per unit area.