Annual Report – Horticultural Research Station, Ooty

New Initiatives and Achievements during 2018-19

Implementation of GoTN-SADP Projects on “ Value addition in Medicinal and Aromatic plants for enhancing the income and livelihood of the farming community of the Niligris district ; Empowerment of Tribal farmers of the Niligris through capacity building on Organic farming , Mushroom cultivation , Nutrition gardening and renovation of existing mushroom production unit
Extension of medicinal and aromatic plants area in woodhouse farm.
Pruning and gap filling of existing Tea plantation
Installation of new Fermenter for biocontrol agent production in woodhouse farm.

S.No	Title of the Seminar/Training	Sponsor	Budget	Period (Duration)	Category of Participants	Number of Participants
1	Ginger Cultivation Techniques	GOI-MIDH	75,000	6.3.2019	Farmers	75
2	Button mushroom Production	TNAU	Sponsored by University	1^stof Every month	Private Entrepreneurs	25
3	FTC training on Diseases of Tea	State AgrilDept	Sponsored by State Agril University	22.01.2019	Farmers	45
4	Organic Farming	State AgrilDept	Sponsored by State Agril University	28.01.2019	Farmers	45
5	Plant Protection Strategies in Vegetables	State AgrilDept	Sponsored by State Agril University	07.12.2018	Farmers	45
6	Coffee Cultivation & Organic Farming in Coffee	State AgrilDept	Sponsored by State Agril University	01.08.2018	Farmers	45
7	Hybrid Cultivation of Vegetables	State AgrilDept	Sponsored by State Agril University	16.8.2018	Farmers	55
8	Micro-Irrigation &Fertigation	State AgrilDept	Sponsored by State Agril University	27.08.2018	Farmers	50
9	Hill Horticulture	Kerala AgrilDept	Sponsored by State Agril University	10.04.2018	Farmers	77

S.No.	Date	Name and Designation of the Visitor	Country	Department /College Visited	Purpose
1	02.02.2019	Vice-Chancellor, and Dean, Dalhousie University	Nova Scotia, Canada	HRS & Wood house	To see the facilities of HRS
2	02.10.18	Scientists from Croatia	Croatia	HRS &Wood house	To see the Production of Biofertilizers&BioControl Agents
3	24.10.18	Director , Dept of Evaluation	Chennai	HRS & Wood house	Organic Farming
4	21.05.18	High Court Judge, Kolkotta	Kolkotta	HRS &Wood house	To collect information on Medicinal Plants
5	23.5.18	High court Judge , Chennai	Chennai	HRS & Wood house	To collect information on Medicinal Plants
6	25.04.18	Abdul Rub, Manager Karnataka Antibiotics,GOI	Karnataka	HRS & Wood house	To discuss use of broad spectrum antibiotics for plant protection of Hill crops

SanchitaGhosh, M.Ganga and John Joel.(2018).Assessment of Mutagenic Sensitivity in Jasmine to Chemical Mutagens .Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 9 (3), 1002-1011.( NAAS rating : 4.97)
SanchitaGhosh, M.Ganga and K.Soorianathasundaram (2018).Determination of Radioacitivesensitivity in Jasmine to Chemical Mutagens .Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 9 (3), 856-965.( NAAS rating : 4.93)
Malathi.S. (2018).Antifungal activity of Actinomycetes against wilt and dry root rot of Redgram .International Journal of Plant Protection. 11(3), 169-173.( NAAS rating : 4.59)
Karthikeyan.S ,M.Anand , S. Malathi and S.Manonmani. (2018).Evaluation of Ginger genotypes for high yield and resistance to soft rot suitable for Gudalur..International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied sciences, 7, 2979-2985.( NAAS rating : 5.38)
Sharathkumar, M.Jawaharlal, M.VivekGovindasamy ,M.Ganga and Surkshita .N. (2018).Influenceofaerification technique on recuperative potential of warm season turf grass . International Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 88 (5), 795-785.( NAAS rating : 4.82)
P.Manimaran ,M.Ganga and M.Kannan (2018).Manipulation of Petal senescence in Jasmine flowers in Packaging and Pretreatment : Role of Phenolics .Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 7 (2), 3478-3480.( NAAS rating : 5.21)