A horticulture expert’s efforts make Kolar jackfruit farm a tourist attraction

The attempts of a horticulture skilled in the early 70s to market the opportunity of jackfruit appears to be to be yielding fruits now. A very good case in point for this is a jackfruit farm established up by late Mari Gowda, the father of horticulture in Karnataka, who was also the Director of Horticulture in the point out in the 70s, in Kolar district of Karnataka.

BG Prakash, Dean of School of Horticulture, Tamaka, Kolar district, said the Tamaka jackfruit farm in the district was established in the 70s by late Mari Gowda. He took attempts to provide various versions of jackfruit from many places in the place, and cultivate them in a dry-land space like Kolar.

With close to 1600 jackfruit trees, this farm is most likely 1 of the biggest jackfruit farms in the place. He said that 49 versions of jackfruit are grown in this farm.

Stating that jackfruit crop has been attracting the focus of lots of individuals now, he said Tamaka jackfruit farm gets close to 10,000 travellers a yr. A very good range of learners are also going to this farm, he said.

Prakash said this when delivering the inaugural handle at a webinar on ‘jackfruit as crop of future’, organised by the Tamaka-based mostly School of Horticulture on Friday. The higher education, which arrived into existence in 2009, is running this farm now.

Nagaraj KS, Assistant Professor at Fruit Science Section of the higher education, who dealt with a complex session, highlighted the versions identified by farm universities in the place.

He said some of the farmers’ versions are also in very good demand. In point, Gubbi and Tiptur taluks of Tumakuru district have lots of versions of pink jackfruit.

He also highlighted the versions grown and chosen by the farmers in coastal Karnataka and Maharashtra.