Cashew Directorate licences hybrid to TN nursery

The Directorate of Cashew Analysis (DCR) underneath ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Analysis) has entered into a memorandum of knowing (MoU) with a Tamil Nadu-dependent nursery for the production of a person of its hybrid varieties.

The directorate, located in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, has signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu-dependent Annai Velankani Nursery for non-exclusive licensing of production of its cashew hybrid wide variety — ‘H-130’.

MG Nayak, Director of DCR, stated that the cashew hybrid wide variety has the authorized security underneath Security of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001.

He stated nurseries with license from ICAR-DCR only are authorised to offer grafts of ‘H-130’ hybrid. Other nurseries producing this hybrid without license are liable for authorized action.

He stated that some men and women are marketing grafts of ‘H-130’ in some other name. “If this proceeds, individuals men and women will be liable for repercussions arising out of these kinds of an act,” he stated.

Any nurseries fascinated in getting the licence of ‘H-130’ could get in touch with the Director of DCR, he stated.

According to DCR, ‘H-130’ is outstanding in produce with three kg per tree in a few a long time of planting. It has a cluster bearing of 10-20 nuts per panicle. Every single nut weighs all-around twelve-13 grams on an typical. (A nut of a standard wide variety weighs all-around six-8 grams.) This hybrid wide variety commences flowering early and has a extensive fruiting duration.

DCR experts stated that the hybrid responds perfectly to pruning and is suited both equally for ultra-density planting and standard spaced plantations.