Nauni farm varsity scientists bag award

Solan, February 15

Scientists of Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, have bagged the Best Poster Presentation award at the International Conference on Climate Change and Agro-ecosystem: Threats, Opportunities, and Solutions held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Chill unit hours decreased

• The study indicated that due to global warming the effective chill unit hours had decreased in mid-hills sub-humid, high-hills wet temperate and high-hills dry temperate zones of the state
• It highlighted variations in the attainment of different phenophases and significant differences in fruit quality parameters among the cultivars in selected zones

The paper titled ‘Phenothermal Response of Traditional and Newly Introduced Apple Cultivars Growing at Different Altitudes in Himachal Pradesh,’ was authored by SK Bhardwaj, Hukam Chand, Muskaan Negi, Lekhika Parihar and Shalini Sharma. SK Bhardwaj and Hukam Chand presented the paper.

The DST-Mahamana Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development and the Department of Geophysics, Institute of Science, BHU, organised the conference in collaboration with the Association of Agro-meteorologists, India Meteorological Department and the South Asian Forum on Agricultural Meteorology.

The research delved into agro-climatic zone-specific insights, focusing on effective chill unit accumulation, phenophases occurrence and fruit quality parameters concerning both newly introduced and traditional apple cultivars in Himachal Pradesh in mid-hills sub-humid, high-hills wet temperate and high hills dry temperate zones of the state due to global warming.

The study indicated that due to global warming the effective chill unit hours had decreased in mid-hills sub-humid, high-hills wet temperate and high-hills dry temperate zones of the state. It highlighted variations in the attainment of different phenophases and significant differences in fruit quality parameters among the cultivars in selected zones.