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REGIONAL HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH & TRAINING STATION MASHOBRA District Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) INDIA

Infrastructure

  • Three building blocks that include seven well equipped laboratories
  • Seminar Hall-cum-Museum, Conference Hall and Library
  • Meteorological Observatory
  • Internet connectivity provided by ICAR
  • Video conferencing facility
  • Five glass houses and two poly carbonate houses
  • Three water storage tanks in orchard area and one in nursery area
  • Cold Storage
  • Farmer’s Hostel
  • Packing-cum-Grading House

Meteorological Observatory

Poly carbonate house

Water Storage Tanks

Glass Conservatory

The station has seven laboratories, well equipped with modern research instruments and equipments viz:

  • Fruit Science Lab
  • Fruit Breeding Lab
  • Fruit Tree Nutrition Lab
  • Plant Pathology Lab
  • Entomology Lab
  • Tissue Culture Lab
  • Floriculture Lab
  • Analytical Balance Digital Sartorius Model No.2245
  • Autoclave Vertical Sanco Make Capacity 40 lts.
  • Autoclave Vertical Sanco Make Capacity 50 lts.
  • A C Volta make
  • Microscope
  • Laminar Flow (2No)
  • Precision Balance
  • Spider Mite sweeping Machine
  • B.O.D. Incubator
  • Upright Research Microscope
  • Sterio Zoom Microscope
  • Stemi Zoom Microscope
  • Sony Digital Camera
  • Baush and Lamp Spectomic-20
  • Fully Automiticl double Beam Atomic Abseoption specto PU meter with accessories.
  • Boron,Calciom,Potassium lamp and Stablizer.
  • Precision Balance citizen
  • Port Photo Synthesis system
  • VSTS HAKHI 130 DI Power tiller with Rotery Hand Drive
  • Buckards spore trap
  • Metos Classic M-701
  • BOD Incubator cum Humidity Chamber
  • Sony Mavica Camera CD 1000
  • Atomic Absorption Spectro photometer
  • Root length Scanner (Comair root length scanner)
  • Lypholizer
  • UV-VIS- Spectrophotomerer
  • Port photosynthesis systems Licor-6200
  • Pentium series data logger and retrieval system
  • The station has one Museum-cum-Seminar Hall having 200 sitting capacity. Live samples of different disciplines have also been exhibited in the
  • The station has also one Video Conferencing Hall
  • The station has also one Video Conferencing Hall

i)  Research area

Revenue sites Mashobra Fare Bank Sadhora Jangal Mashobra Jhalti Total Area
Total area (Bighas) 60.91 (20.15) 8.06 (2.67) 56.17 163.71 (54.17) 13.40 (4.43) 302.25 (100.00)
Cultivated area 8.06 43.05 138.70 9.35 13.40 (4.43) 80.87 (100.00)
Fruit trees (Bearing) 35.27 8.06 38.94 138.70 9.35 94.23
Fruit trees (Non Bearing) 8.60 - - - - 3.52
Nursery 0.94 - - - - 0.38
Flower crops 0.05 - - - - 0.02
Other cultivated area 0.40 - 4.11 - - 1.85
Uncultivated total area 15.65 - 13.12 - 4.05 10.86
Barren 3.80 - 1.18 - - 15.17
Put to other uses 11.85 - 2.17 - 0.20 43.33
Grasses - - 9.77 - 3.85 41.50
Forest species - - - 25.01 - 8

i) Demonstration Trails :

  • Multi-locational trials are laid out to evaluate the performance of promising fruit cultivars in private orchards and PCDO's.

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