SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE

TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCES, PRAYAGRAJ (U.P)

Student Rural Enterpreneurship Awareness

Development,Yojana (READY) Report ,2021

SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
PROF.(DR.) GAUTAM GHOSH NAME:- ANKIT RAJPOOT
(Dean Naini Agriculture PID No:-18BSCAGH063
Institute, SHUATS) B.Sc.(Hons)Agriculture
SEMESTER:-7th
SECTION:-A

CHIEF CO-ORDINATOR
Dr. Devi Singh Sir

(Assistant Professor)

Dept .of Horticulture,

Naini Agriculture Institute,(SHUATS)

HERBOSTER BIOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED

KANPUR (U.P)

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost I am thankful to Prof. (Dr.) Gautam Ghosh Sir,
Dean, Naini Agriculture Institute, SHUATS for encouraging us for the
Student READY fieldwork component as a part of our course
curriculam. I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Devi Singh Sir,
Chief-Co-ordinator, Student READY Programme to facilitate
throughout by playing different roles as mentor, coordinator and
supervisor and for inputs and moral support for designing and
completion of the training programme. I am thankful for their
feedback and co-operation leading to some useful experiences during
the training at Herbostar Biotech Private Limited. I am also thankful
to Mr.Kuldeep Kumar Sir and Mr.Narayan Sahu Sir who helped me
immensely during my training with their knowledge on different-
different types nursery and ensured that my training turns more
meaningful.

ANKIT RAJPOOT

18BSCAGH063

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 DECLARATION

Here by, I declare that this report is a bonafide record of Student Rural
Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana (READY) Programme
undergone by me during the 7th semester, from 10/09/2021 to 10/10/2021
of at HERBOSTAR BIOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED,439 D Block,World Bank Colony
Barra,Kanpur (U.P)208027.

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Herbostar Biotech Private Limited incorporated with
MCA on 22 June 2020. The Herbostar Biotech Private
Limited is listed in the class of company and classified
as Non Govt Company. This company is registered at

Registrar of Companies(ROC), Uttar Pradesh with an

Authorized Share Capital of Rs. 10 LAC and its paid up
capital is 1 LAC.
Herbostar Biotech Private Limited company’s
registered office address is 439, D Block , World Bank
Colony Barra , Kanpur Nagar Kanpur Up 208027 In.

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 What is a Nursery?
A nursery is a portion of land dedicated to
propagate plants, provide nourishment for initial
times, grow young seedlings and finally sell out for
transplanting for commercial agriculture,
horticulture, or hobby gardening like Kitchen
Gardening, etc

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Design/Layout of Nursery
The principle used in a nursery design is the success
of high quality seedling production. There are two
main elements determining the successful seedling
production, i.e. the Environmental factors and
seedling production techniques in nursery
operation.

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Nursery Location
Generally, the selection of nursery location is
based on several considerations. The company
has kept in mind every aspects to make
transportation easy. Also being close to a city
workers are readily available .Also water resources
and electricity facilities are available 24 hours for

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proper seedling establishment and propagation.

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Training for quality plant production of guava in
nursery:

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Containerized nursery system
To avoid the problems of sanitation in field nursery, the
concept of containerised nursery system is widely
adopted for rising fruit plants. The infrastructure
required for such nurseries includes shade net houses,
sterilized trays
Potting mixture:- The Potting mixture consists of one
part of fertile soil and two parts of sand may be used for
primary nursery beds and for the secondary nursery. The
pot mix is sterilized through soil solarization and
fumigation to eliminate the soil borne fungi, nematodes
and other insect-pests.

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Primary nursery:-
In case of containerized nursery, the plastic trays
(60x40x12 cm) should be used. These trays should
be surface sterilized with any available surface
disinfectant. Liquid bleach available in market for
fabrics may be used after diluting it with clean water
(1 part bleach and 3-part water). The trays must be
thoroughly washed with this solution and then
rinsed with clean water to remove the chlorine
odour. These sterilized trays should be filled with
solarized and/or fumigated pot mix to saw the
seeds. The trays should be kept at least 1.5-2 feet
above the ground
Collection of fruits and seed extraction:-
Fully ripened fruits of recommended rootstocks
resistant to root-knot nematode should be
collected.

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Seed sowing and germination:- The seed should be
sown at the depth of 1-1.5cm, and spaced at 2.5-
3.0cm apart in a row and 5-7cm between the rows
under shade net. Seed germination starts within 20-
25days after sowing depending upon the rootstock.
About 85-90% seed germination takes place in fresh
and healthy seeds
Selection of mother plants :-
Mother plants of 10-15 year ago having
exceptionally good health, regular bearing,
consistently high yield with good quality fruit should
be selected

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Budding operation:- Budding is performed when
seedlings attain the girth of 3 to 3.5cm (pencil
thickness) at not less than 9” height. Patch budding
method is adopted and the rootstock stem is cut
2-4” above the union after budtake. Maintenance of
budding plants The budded plants should be given
frequent light irrigation with automatic sprinklers and
/ or drip. Urea @ 5g is applied.
Fertilizers:-Fertilizer is applied at 6-6-6-2(N:P:K:Mg)
during growing period & 8-3-9-2 during fruiting
period.

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Pest and diseases:-Fruits are wrapped with covers
to protect them from pest and diseases. Using Neem
oil or copper spray can control diseases.
Harvesting:-Guava trees matures 3-4 months after
blooming.

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 Conclusion
Nursery management is the most important aspect in
horticulture. Besides the horticultural aspects like
clonal selection for sustained high productivity and
best quality of fruits, the mother plants selected for
propagation must be free from diseases. Utmost care
should be taken to avoid the diseases from the nursery. A
profitable, highly productive and long-lived orchard can
only be raised from disease free nursery stock of guava.

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