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Dear Colleagues,

Independence day is an occasion to refine and rebuild our character. This National festi-val inspires us to lead a life where our character gets refined further, to dedicate ourselves to the nation and to link our activities to the interest of the nation. Then only this festival of freedom can be a festival of inspiration to take India to newer heights. I take this opportunity to convey my best wishes for your personal well-being and happiness and for the continued progress and prosperity of the Nation.

Dr.B.M.C.Reddy Vice-Chancellor

Dr. YSRHU e-Newsletter Fortnightly e-Newsletter of Dr.Y.S.R.Horticultural University

Volume-I, Issue - 6 Dr.YSRHU e-Newsletter 1st –15th August, 2015

Fortnight Focus

Events Education Research Extension

General

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Events

International Youth Day-2015 International Youth Day was organized on 12th August, 2015 at HC&RI, VR Gudem. Dr. D. Srihari, Dean of Student Affairs, Dr.YSRHU and Dr. A. Sujatha, Associate Dean, HC&RI, VR Gudem participated and given message to the students about power of youth in bringing transforma-tional changes in the society. Students shared their views on engagement of youth in local and national politics for sustainable human development. The programme ended with a pledge by the students ‘Saying no to Ragging’ and the programme was organized under the supervision of Dr.R.V.Sujatha, NSS Programme Officer, HC&RI, VRGudem

Independence day celebrations Sixty ninth Independence Day was celebrated at Dr.Y.S.R. Horticultural University Campus and all its affiliated Institu-tions. Dr. B.M.C.Reddy, Vice-Chancellor hoisted the National flag at administrative office of the university in the pres-ence of University Officers, Teaching and Non-teaching staff. In his message Vice-chancellor called upon to rededi-cate ourselves for the effective delivery of teaching research and extension services for the betterment of farm-ers and the country.

VIPs visit Dr. S. Raghuvardhan Reddy, former Vice-Chancellor and Dr. N. Sreerama Reddy, former Dean of Agriculture, ANGRAU visited HC&RI, HRS and KVK at VRGudem Campus on 10th August, 2015. Dr. B.M.C. Reddy, Vice- Chancellor and University officers along with the guests observed the activities at instructional farm, PHT Lab and entomology Lab at HC&RI. Dr. E. Karuna Sree, Programme Co-ordinator explained about technical programme and inputs provided by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Venkataramannagudem.

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Bio-fertilizers made available to the farmers The Bio fertilizer unit established at HRS, VRGudem started the sale of Bio-fertilizers viz,., Azotobacter, Azospirillum and PSB on 15th August, 2015. Sale of bio-fertilizers was launched by the Vice-Chancellor in pres-ence of Dr.B.Srinivasulu, Registrar, Dr.M.B. Nageswara Rao, DIIP, Dr.D.Srihari, DSA, Dr.J.Dilip Babu, Director of Research and Dr.R.V.S.K.Reddy, Director of Extension. Smt P.Rama Devi, Scientist and In-charge of the Bio-fertilizer unit informed that the above products are ready for sale to the farmers

Visit to High tech Nurseries at Raipur, Chhattisgarh Dr.B.M.C.Reddy, Vice-Chancellor along with Dr.J.Dilip Babu, Director of Research and Dr.R.V.S.K.Reddy, Director of Extension visited the Hi-tech vegetable nurseries to see production of grafted vegeta-ble seedlings by Department of Horticulture, Chhattisgarh. Also visited VNR farms and interacted regarding multipli-cation of guava grafts and high density planting in Taiwan guava on 8th August, 2015.

Dr. S.Raghuvardhan Reddy, Former Vice-chancellor and Dr. N. Sreerama Reddy, Former Dean of Agriculture, ANGRAU along with Dr. J.Dilip Babu, Director of Research visited Tissue culture Lab, Experimental Plots at Horticultural Research Station, Kovvur on 10th August, 2015. Dr.B.V.K.Bhagawan, Principal Scientist(Hort), Smt. K.Mamatha, Scientist(Hort) and Smt. R.Nagalakshmi, Scientist (Hort) interacted with the guests.

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ADMISSIONS

PGCET-2015 One hundred and twenty three students attended the State level PGCET Examination conducted by Dr.YSRHU at HC&RI, VRGudem under the supervision of Dr.M.L.N. Reddy, PG Dean and Dr. A. Sujatha, Associate Dean on 4th August, 2015 .

Ph. D-CET-2015 Ph.D-CET Examination conducted by Dr YSRHU at HC&RI, VRGudem on 5th August, 2015 followed by interview on 13th August, 2015. A total of nine students (Regular- 06 & In-service 03) Viz: Fruit Science-02; Vegetable Science-02; Floriculture and Landscape Architecture-01 and Plantation, Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic crops-01 got admission into Ph.D programme at HC&RI, VR Gudem. HORTCET-2015 The results of HORTCET-2015 examination held on 31st July, 2015 were kept in university web-site on 10th August, 2015. Students of SSPG Horticultural polytechnic, Madakasira secured most of the top ranks in the HORTCET-2015 examination conducted by the University for the admission into B.Sc(Hons) in Horticulture in Dr.YSRHU. Ranks are 2nd (D.S.Diwakar), 3rd (K.Vijayasanthi), 4th (K.Sushmitha), 5th (P.Thimmaraju), 7th (S.Sailaja), 8th (S.Priyalatha), 9th (B.Saran Kumar) and 11th (K.Gamanika) Diploma Admissions Counselling was conducted for admission into ‘Diploma in Horticulture Polytechnic’ course 2015-16 at HC&RI, Venkataramannagudem on 10th August, 2015 U.G. Admissions Dr.D.Srihari, Controller of Examinations, Dr.YSRHU attended combined counselling for B.Sc(Hons.) Horticulture, B.Sc(Ag) and B.V.Sc on 13th August, 2015 at ANGRAU, Lam.

Education

Theses submitted Ms. K. Naga Durga Bhavani submitted thesis as a part of fulfilment of M.Sc (Hort) Programme on the topic “Standardisation of preparation of jackfruit bar and osmo dehydrated slices using elec-trical dehydrator and solar drier.” Smt. N. Priyanka submitted the thesis as a part of fulfilment of M.Sc (Hort) Programme on the topic “Physico-chemical characters, sensory quality and storage behaviour of certain unfermented beverages from jamun based blends”.

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Commercial Floriculture Second year B.Sc(Hons.) Horticulture students of HC&RI, VR Gudem prepared various decorative items viz., greeting cards, dry flower vases, bouquets, hanging baskets, mirror decoration and floral jewellery with dry flowers, bye-products of various plants and locally available flora within the campus by using various techniques (air drying, sun drying, silica gel embed-ded drying, press drying, hot air oven and micro wave oven drying) learned in Commercial Floriculture course (FCLS-2.3.1) practical classes. Guest Lectures Dr. A. Narsimha Murthy, Seed, Plant Genetic Resources & Biodi-versity, FAO delivered a guest lecture on collection and conserva-tion of seed and plant genetic resources in agricultural and horti-cultural crops to the scientists and students at HC & RI, VR Gudem on 7th August, 2015. Dr. G. Subbi Reddy, former Dean of Student Affairs, Dr YSRHU delivered a guest lecture on “The Earth, Solar Radiation and Seasonal Changes” on 7th August, 2015 for the benefit of scientists and students at HC&RI, VR Gudem.

Dr N. N. Reddy, Principal Scientist, CRIDA, Hyderabad delivered a guest lecture on “Dry land Horticulture” for the scientists and students at HC&RI, VR Gudem on 11th August, 2015. Faculty Improvement programme Sri M. Paratpara Rao, Assistant Professor (Genetics & Plant Breeding) HC&RI, VRGudem got Ph.D admission as in service candidate under faculty improvement programme in Tamil Nadu Agricul-tural University at Coimbatore.

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Research

Dr. C. Madhumathi, & Dr. Syed Sadarunnisa, Scientists of HRS & HCRI, Anantharajupet interacted with progressive farmer Sri. U. Krishna at Gangarajapuram in ash gourd field. Farmer has raised ash gourd crop with less inputs in prevailing water shortage conditions under drip irrigation system. He invested Rs.30,000 in 5 acres land & achieved a gross profit of Rs. 3,00,000 in a span of 75 days. The crop was sown in the month of May and harvested in the month of August. They also interacted about the performance of off season mango Cv. Royal spe-cial.

Meetings attended Mrs P.Sunitha, Scientist (Ento), HRS, Venkataramannagudem & Co PI of CRP on Borers Project attended a round table meeting on ‘Semiochemicals for borer pest management organized by Consortia Research Platform on Borer Pests, IIHR, Bengaluru held at NBAIR, Bengaluru on 6th August, 2015 and presented a brief report on mango fruit borer (Deanolis albizonalis (Hampson)) in Andhra Pradesh.

Significant Findings Watermelon as successive crop after muskmelon as off season crop during May- July has yielded good returns under mulching, drip irri-gation with fertigation. Packages of practices followed: • After muskmelon crop is completed Glyphosate was sprayed on the left over vegetative growth of muskmelon. • After 10 days dried vines and other dried weeds are removed. • Plants started flowering 27 days after sowing. • Regular need based plant protection measures were taken in the crop period. • Micronutrient solution was applied through drip @ of 1 lt per acre after one month after planting. • Fruits were ready for harvest after 59 days of sowing. It was observed that the off season crop (May sown crop) came to harvest 10 days earlier than the regular crop (January sown crop). The average fruit weight recorded was 6.5 kg in Yamuna and 3 kg in Anmol. The fruits were sold at the rate of Rs.5.5 per kg.

Dr, P. Suresh Kumar, Senior Scientist, Horticulture , from NRC ,Banana which is a nodal centre for AICRP activities of banana visited HRS, Kovvur to review the ongoing experiments under AICRP on fruits on 13th August, 2015.

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Visit of Foreigners Miss. Tanja Matives consultant of GIZ NGO, Germany and Coordi-nator, Agriculture Risk Management and Ms. Mitali and Mr. N. Anirudh of IRMA (Institute of Rural Management Academy), Anand, Gujarat visited KVK< Pandirimamidi on 6th August, 2015. Dr.A.Srinivas, Programme Coordinator explained the activities of KVK in the agency area and technical support provided by KVK to the farmers by providing quality seed and plant material, backyard poultry, fisheries and women empowerment activities etc., Sri.V.Govardham Rao SMS(PP) explained about the collaborative programmes of KVK with ATMA, ITDA, Directorate of Sorghum Research, Indian Institute of Millets Research etc., for empower-ment of tribal farmers

Extension

Video conference Dr. A.Srinivas , Programme Coordinator, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pandirimamidi attended Video Conference at Collectorate, Kakinada on “ Seasonal Conditions and Contingency Plan and Natural Farming” with Special Chief Secretary (Agri) and Commissioner of Agriculture, A.P on 5th August, 2015. Review meeting was conducted on master trainers identification from Agriculture Depart-ment (FTC/ATMA), DRDA,SERP, Scientist of KVK/DATTC/ARS to promote organic farming and NPM.

Farmers field school Conducted training programme on “Disease management in Oil Palm” at Telikicherla village in collaboration with IIOPR, Pedavegi as a part of farmers field school programme on 13th August, 2015. Dr.R.V.S.K.Reddy, Director of Extension, Dr.M.V.Prasad, Principal Scientist, Dr.Praveena Deepti, Scientist, IIOPR, Pedavegi and Dr.E.Karunasree, Programme Coordinator, KVK, Venkataramanna-gudem participated and explained about importance of clean culti-vation and management of diseases in oil palm crop. Farmers visit The Scientist of Horticultural Research Station, Anantharajupet explained about cultivation of horticultural crops to the farmers from Karnataka State as a part of skill development programme of KVK, Kolar.

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Sri.D.Sridhar, Scientist (Hort), HRS, Anantharajupet visited Banana gardens in Raghavarajapuram with potassium deficiency and recom-mended 250g of K2O per plant in 6 split doses and also recom-mended to spray sulphate of potash @ 5g/L. Severe incidence of fruit fly damage was noticed in and around Chit-toor in drumstick and recommended to install Methyl eugenol traps and also spraying of Malathion 50EC @ 1ml/Litre.

Diagnostic visits Dr. G. Ramanandam, Principal Scientist(Hort) & Head, Dr. N.B.V .Chalapathi Rao, Senior Scientist(Ento) and staff of bio control lab HRS, Ambajipeta conducted diagnostic visit and release of parasi-toids against Opisina arenosella, coconut black headed caterpillar at Samanthakurru village of Allavaram mandal in East Godavari district on3rd August, 2015. About 15000 nos. of Bracon hebetor and 1500 nos. of Goniozius nephantidis parasitoids were supplied to farmers.

Diagnostic visit in Kaatakoteswaram and Tadimalla villages of Nidadavolu mandal in West Godavari District for coconut pests and diseases by Dr. N.B.V. Chalapathi Rao, Senior Scientist(Ento) and Dr. A. Snehalatha Rani, Scientist(Pl.Path) on 7th August, 2015. High incidence of basal stem rot disease was observed in surveyed garden at kaatakoteswaram village. Incidence of red palm weevil and bud rot disease was observed in Tadimalla village. Field visits Smt K.Mamatha, Scientist(Hort), Ms T.Sowmya, RA(Pl.Path) and Sri K.Tirupal, RA(Hort) visited Chidipi village on 7th August, 2015 to document the area under elephant foot yam using GPS and visited banana fields to conduct survey on banana diseases. Smt R.Nagalakshmi , Scientist(Hort ), Ms T.Sowmya,RA (PP) visited banana fields at Maddurulanka and Purushottapalli on 11th August, 2015 to conduct survey on Banana diseases.

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Students of 1st Year B.Sc (Hort) visited HRS, Kovvur on 3rd August, 2015 to have a practical exposure to shoot tip culture in banana. Dr. B.V.K.Bhagavan, Principal Scientist(Hort) & Head and Smt. K. Mamatha, Scientist(Hort) explained about the micropropaga-tion techniques in banana Dr. V.Vijaya Bhaskar, Assoc. Professor(Hort), Dr. RV.Sujatha, Asst Professor (Agri. Econ.) and Dr. P.Subbaramamma Asst Professor (Pl. Physiology) arranged a field visit to B.Sc(Hons.) Horticulture, 1st year students on 10th August, 2015 to IIOPR, Pedavegi to show the nursery management, planting, fertigation, mulching activities in oil palm, method of dormancy breaking in oil palm seeds, seed viability tests and Coconut coir pith industry at Pedavegi. Dr. B. Na-rasimha Rao, Principal Scientist, Horticulture, IIOPR explained about the hexagonal planting in oil palm and Dr. M. V. Prasad, Prin-cipal Scientist explained about ongoing research activities

Exposure Visits Dr. N. Emmanuel, Assistant Professor (Ento) taken third year B. Sc (Hons.) Horticulture students to an exposure visit on 1st August, 2015 to show the diagnostic symptoms of insect damaged plants viz., rhizome fly affected turmeric, whitefly and jassids affected bhendi, mites and thrips affected chilli, whiteflies, leaf miner, mealy bugs and weevils affected coccinia and bitter gourd vegetable fields and col-lected various insect specimens at Illindalaparru and kandavalli vil-lages. Dr. K. Umajyothi, Professor(Hort) and Dr. V. Sudha Vani, Assistant Professor(Hort) arranged an exposure visit to third year B.Sc (Hons.) Horticulture and M.Sc(Hort) students to Madhava Cold Storage to show the storage of priya pickles and banana ripening chamber at Vijayawada to show the pre cooling, storage and ripening of banana with ethylene gas on 1st August, 2015.

General

MOU with M/s. Jain Irrigations Systems Ltd A meeting was held on 14th August, 2015 with the officials from R&D division and engineering division of Jain Irrigations Systems Limited and an MOU was signed between Dr.YSRHU and M/s. Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, Jalgaon, Maharash-tra, India for facilitating the collaborative education, research and extension activities through their hands on training and also to augment the R&D efforts of JISL.

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Radio and TV programmes Dr. R V Sujatha, Assistant Professor (Agril. Econo.) attended the Radio Talk on “ Yegumathulaku anuvaina arati saagulo kothaku mundu teesukovalasina jagrathalu” at All India Radio, Vijay-awada. Smt K.Mamatha, Scientist (Hort) given programmes on ‘Fertilizer management in Dioscorea and Colocasia ' to Etv- Annadatha which were telecasted on 1st and 3rd August, 2015 respec-tively.

Research articles published

• Anindita Roy, B. Prasanna Kumar, DV Swamy and P. Subbaramamma (2015) Value addition of cashew apple (Anacardium occidentale L.) by blending with mango, pineapple and sapota juice, Green Farming Vol-6 (5) pp-858-860. • C H Rohit, C. Chandra Sekhara Rao, K. Usha Kumari and P. Subbaramamma (2015) Effect of micronutrients and GA3 foliar sprays on growth, flowering, yield and quality parameters in African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) Green Farming Vol-6 (4) pp-893-896. • SK Shaheel, D. V. Swamy, B. Prasanna Kumar and K. Uma Krishna (2015) Effect of storage period on chemical properties of RTS prepared from karonda (Carissa carandas L.) blended juices: Plant Archives vol.15 No.1 pp 35-40. • SK Shaheel, D. V. Swamy, B. Prasanna Kumar and K. Uma Krishna (2015) Effect of blending of Karonda (Carissa carandas L.) juice with guava, papaya and pineapple juices on RTS qual-ity and organoleptic evaluation: Plant Archives vol.15 No.1 pp 187-192. • SK Shaheel, D. V. Swamy, B. Prasanna Kumar and K. Uma Krishna (2015) Effect of storage period on physical and organoleptic properties of RTS prepared from Karonda (Carissa

carandas L.) blended juices: Plant Archives vol.15 No.1 pp 241-246.

International symposium Dr.M.Rajasekhar, Senior Scientist (Hort) & Head, Horti-cultural Research Station, VRGudem attended 3rd ISHS Southeast Asia symposium on ‘Quality management in post harvest systems’ at Siem Reap, Cambodia from 13-15th August, 2015 and presented research papers on Changes in ethylene and polyamine levels and shelf life of polyamine treated tomato fruits (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and Storage behaviour of aqueous 1-MCP treated tomato fruits (Solanum lycopersicum L.) in modified atmospheric package

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Pediobus foveolatus, a grub parasitoid against ladybird beetle (Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata) : Adult female black wasp inserts eggs into the body of yellow spiny grubs of third to fourth instar stage through its ovipositor and the affected grub gradually declined its feeding on leaf, turns brown in one week becomes mummified


Photograph by Mrs.P.Sunitha, Scientist(Ento), HRS, VRGudem

Visit our website at www.drysrhu.edu.in Published by: Dr. B.M.C. Reddy, Vice-Chancellor Dr.Y.S.R. Horticultural University Administrative Office: Post Box No.7, Venkataramannagudem-534 101, W.G. Dist., A.P. Compiled & : Dr.R.V.S.K.Reddy, Director of Extension, Edited by Dr.Y.S.R. Horticultural University

Female wasp laying eggs on healthy grub (Inset: Mummified grubs)

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