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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, SHIVANI × End date: 2021 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    MANIPULATION OF CROP LOAD IN APPLE (Malus × domestica Borkh.) UNDER HIGH DENSITY PLANTATION
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2021-09) SHARMA, SHIVANI; VERMA, PRAMOND
    ABSTRACT The present investigation entitled “Manipulation of crop load in apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) under high density plantation” was carried out in high density apple orchard of Department of Fruit Science, Dr Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP) during the year 2020-21, in order to find out the optimum level of crop load for quality fruit production under high density plantation through chemical and manual thinning. The experiment consist of ten thinning treatments (T1 – NAA @ 10 ppm; T2- NAA @ 20 ppm; T3- BA @ 100 ppm; T4- BA @ 200 ppm; T5-Metamitron @ 100 ppm; T6-Metamitron @ 200 ppm; T7- Crop load of 4 fruits/cm2 TCSA; T8- Crop load of 6 fruits/cm2 TCSA; T9- Crop load of 8 fruits/cm2 TCSA and T10- Control) and three cultivar treatments (C1 – Jeromine; C2- Redlum Gala and C3- Super Chief) replicated thrice and was laid out in Randomized Block Design (factorial). Both chemical and manual thinning was applied at 10 days after petal fall (fruitlets with 10-12 mm diameter). The result obtained from the experiment depicted that the highest yield (12.69 kg/tree) was recorded in crop load of 8 fruits/cm2 TCSA. However, the crop load of 4 fruits/cm2 TCSA resulted in best quality fruits in terms of maximum fruit length ( 62.03 mm), diameter (71.28 mm), weight (154.48 g), volume (180.28 cc), firmness (9.04 kg/cm2), red skin colour (96.67%), TSS (14.51 °B), total sugars (13.86%), reducing sugars (9.57%), non-reducing sugars (4.07%), anthocyanin content (0.62 OD), return bloom (43.64) and minimum titratable acidity (0.19%), followed by crop load of 6 fruits/cm2 TCSA through manual thinning and NAA @ 20 ppm in case of chemical thinning in comparison to control (no thinning). With respect to cultivars, highest extent of thinning (45.82%), return bloom (36.67), TSS (12.99 °B), total sugars (11.80%) and reducing sugars (8.39%) was recorded in Redlum Gala. Whereas, the Jeromine cultivars recorded maximum fruit length (60.46 mm), diameter (68.94 mm), weight (135.09 g), volume (170.16 cc), red skin colour (95.10%) and anthocyanin content (0.62 OD). The treatment combination T7C1(Crop load of 4 fruits/cm2 + Jeromine) recorded highest fruit length (65.26 mm), diameter (73.89 mm), weight (157.53 g), volume (184.43 cc), whereas, the highest TSS (15.36 °B), total sugars (14.22%), reducing sugars (10.21%) was recorded in T7C2 (Crop load of 4 fruits/cm2 + Redllum Gala) in comparison to all other treatment combinations. Hence, the optimum level of crop load for quality fruit production in apple under high density plantation ranged from 4-6 fruits/cm2 TCSA.
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    ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION IN MID HILL ZONE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2021-02) SHARMA, SHIVANI; SHARMA, RAVINDER
    ABSTRACT Present study entitled “Economic Analysis of Agricultural Mechanization in mid hill zone of Himachal Pradesh” was conducted in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. A sample of 60 farmers was selected randomly from 10 villages of Gopalpur and Balh blocks in Mandi district. Both primary as well as secondary data were used to fulfill the specific objectives of the study. Socioeconomic analysis of the farmers revealed an average size of 5.90 members with a literacy rate of 88.24 per with literacy index of 2.81. The cultivated land accounted for 97.43 per cent of total land holdings. The results revealed that mechanization index at overall farm category was 0.26 which varied from 0.21 to 0.53 among different categories of farms. The highest (0.53) farm mechanization index was found in medium farms and lowest (0.21) in marginal farms. It can further be observed that coefficient of variation was highest (39.00 %) in marginal farms and lowest (6.52 %) in medium farms. At the overall level, 46.15 per cent variation was found in farm mechanization. Multiple linear regression was used to analyze the factors affecting farm mechanization the study area. Literacy index, type of family and land holdings were found significant factors affecting the farm mechanization in the study area. It was found that with the improvement in quality of education, farm mechanization index will increase by 0.009 units for every one unit increase in the literacy index. Literacy rate, occupation and crop yield index were found to have positive relationship with farm mechanization, however, these factors were not found statistically significant. The major problem for the slow pace of agricultural mechanization in the study area was lack of training in the use of farm machinery, maintenance cost of implements and excessively small fragmented land holdings and nonavailability of spare parts. Agricultural mechanization has been identified as one of the critical inputs for increasing the productivity of land by ensuring timeliness of agricultural operations, increased labour work output per unit time by reducing efforts and drudgery and improved quality of farm operations.
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    STUDIES ON ORGANIC SEED PRODUCTION IN RADISH
    (NAUNI,UHF, 2020-10) SHARMA, SHIVANI; THAKUR, KULDEEP SINGH
    ABSTRACT The present investigation titled “Studies on Organic Seed Production in Radish” was carried out at Organic Block of Department of Vegetable Science, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP) during rabi season of 2019-20. Various combinations of organic and liquid manures were replicated thrice in the form of twelve treatments combinations of four levels of organic manure viz. M0 (No manure), M1 (FYM @ 20 t/ha), M2 (Vermicompost @ 8 t/ha), M3 (FYM @ 10 t/ha + Vermicompost @ 4 t/ha) and three levels of liquid manure viz. J0 (No Jeevamrit), J1 (Jeevamrit application @ 5 %) and J2 (Jeevamrit application @ 10 %). The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Block Design (RBD) Factorial involving plot size of 2.4 × 1.8 m and spacing of 60 × 30 cm. The seeds of radish cv. Chinese Pink were sown on 20th September, 2019 and two months old roots were uprooted for prepration of stecklings. The stecklings of radish were replanted on 11th November, 2019. The results revealed that treatment T9 (Vermicompost @ 8 t/ha + Jeevamrit @ 10 per cent) was rated as best treatment for majority of characters like days to 50 per cent initiation of bolting, days to 50 per cent flowering, number of primary branches per plant, plant height, pod length, number of seeds per pod, seed yield per plot and hectare, 1000 seed weight, seed germination, seedling length, seedling dry weight, seed vigour index-I, seed vigour index-II, available NPK in soil and disease severityof white rust. Vermicompost along with jeevamrit recorded 62.66 per cent increase in yield over control along with increase in soil available NPK content and less severity of white rust. Besides this, the highest net returns were recorded` 2,77,536/ha for the same treatment. Hence application of vermicompost @ 8 t/ha + jeevamrit @ 10 per cent can be recommended for getting higher seed yield, better growth, less severity of disease and better nutrient status of soil for organic seed production of radish.
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    STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF ZINC AS FOLIAR APPLICATION ON SEED YIELD AND QUALITY IN RADISH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2020-08) SHARMA, SHIVANI
    ABSTRACT The present investigations entitled “Studies on the effect of zinc as foliar application on seed yield and quality in radish” were carried out in the Department of Seed Science and Technology, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP) during 2018-2019 using radish cv. Japanese White. There were twelve treatment combinations including four levels of zinc (Zn) (0g l-1, 1g l-1, 2g l-1 and 3g l-1 ZnSO4) and three stages of application (S) (Bolting, Bolting + 14 days after first application and Bolting + 14 days + 28 days after first application). Each plot of size 3.0 × 1.8 m accommodated thirty plants at as spacing of 60 × 30 cm. The results revealed that among the 12 treatment combinations, Zn3S1 (2g l-1 at the time of bolting) was the best treatment combination for growth and seed yield parameters resulting in maximum plant height (118.92 cm), siliquae plant-1(146.40), seeds siliqua-1(6.34), siliqua length (7.09 cm), average seed weight siliqua-1 (0.185g), minimum days to seed maturity (104.67) and maximum seed yield (27.03 g plant-1, 0.67 kg plot-1 and 9.90 q ha-1). The effect on various seed quality parameters evaluated under laboratory conditions depicted superiority of interaction Zn3S1 in terms of maximum 1000 seed weight (14.36 g), germination of harvested seed (85.75%), seedling length (24.20 cm), seedling dry weight (11.31 mg), seed vigour index-I (2,075.08), seed vigour index-II (966.77), minimum electrical conductivity (0.017dS m-1), maximum germination in accelerated ageing test (81.00 %) and cold test (78.25 %) than rest of the treatment combinations. Maximum benefit: cost ratio (2.70:1) was also noticed in Zn3S1. Thus, it can be concluded that for getting higher yield of quality seed in radish under mid hill condition of HP, the crop should be sprayed with ZnSO4 @ 2g l-1 at bolting stage.