ICAR-AICRP on Fruits, Nagaland Centre functionaries, resource person and Socunoma village beneficiaries.
Chümoukedima, October 17 (MExN): The ICAR- All India Co-ordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Fruits, Medziphema Centre, Department of Horticulture, Nagaland University trained the Socunoma farmers in Chümoukedima district, Nagaland on management of newly established litchi orchards under TSP programme on October 14.
The programme was aimed to train the selected farmers about the importance to follow the calendar of operations for adopting various intercultural operations and plant protection measures at appropriate timeline, thereby to improve the quality and productivity of the fruits. This training was a follow-up of the previous training which was held on May 2023 wherein litchi saplings were distributed to each of the attendee to develop litchi orchards, a press release from Department of Horticulture, NU stated.
The resource person, Dr Sentirenla Jamir, Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, SAS: NU shared the tips on the soil and plant management of the newly established litchi plantations. She also emphasised on the role of canopy management and techniques that can be adopted for tree shape maintenance in the initial 1-3 years of plant growth with supporting videos and demonstrations.
The various intercultural operations like mulching, girdling, bagging and plant protection measures for old trees and orchards were also discussed. This was followed by interactive session between the farmers and AICRP (F) technical staffs.
The Project-In-Charge, Prof CS Maiti invited progressive farmers who are enthusiastic beneficiaries can volunteer land to establish demonstration plots to incorporate advanced technologies from planting to harvesting of litchi crops.
The programme was chaired by Aroro Ngullie, Enumerator-cum-Field Assistant, AICRP on Fruits.
