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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Uttarakhand farmers get very low yield from pest infested imported fruit plants: Experts -Deep Joshi

Uttarakhand farmers get very low yield from pest infested imported fruit plants: Experts -Deep Joshi

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published Published on Jan 9, 2018   modified Modified on Jan 9, 2018
-Hindustan Times

Fruit growers in Uttarakhand get hardly any yield from their orchards because they mostly get to grow imported plants that are not checked for viruses and diseases in absence of hi-tech scientific facilities in the state and a dedicated law

Fruit growers in Uttarakhand get hardly any yield from their orchards because they mostly get to grow imported plants that are not checked for viruses and diseases in absence of hi-tech scientific facilities in the state and a dedicated law.

No wonder, private agencies importing diseased rootstocks of fruit trees are making a moolah. But both big and marginal horticulturists, who are at the receiving end, are having a tough time.

For, virus or pest infested imported fruit plants they grow in their orchards either give extremely low yields or get wiped out.

“Fruit growers get either a very low yield or no yield at all because plants they grow in their orchards are mostly diseased. Such plants imported by private agencies are distributed among farmers by the government at subsidised rates,” said a source in the horticulture department.

“Diseased plants reach farmers as we have neither a dedicated plant quarantine law in the state nor do we have any facilities for virus indexing of imported diseased plants,” he said.

VS Negi, director, horticulture and fruit processing, admitted that the state was yet to have a plant quarantine law.

“We don’t have a plant quarantine act in the state,” he said and agreed that private agencies that import rootstocks of different species of fruit trees “tend to take advantage” of the lacuna.

Negi said virus indexing of “imported plants” was carried out at GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology.

“Before that imported rootstocks are checked at the plant quarantine units of airports,” he further said.

Sources in the horticulture department though clarified that a dedicated centre was required in the state for a proper virus indexing of imported rootstocks of fruit trees.

Neighbouring Himachal Pradesh has one such dedicated unit -Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology at Palampur.

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Hindustan Times, 7 January, 2018, http://www.hindustantimes.com/dehradun/uttarakhand-farmers-get-very-low-yield-from-pest-infested-imported-fruit-plants-experts/story-rAWDFvcVOHPxx5qlrUg4HJ.html


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