Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli (Agricultural University)

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	Research Station Information

	Name of Research Station & Year Of Establishment
	Regional Fruit Research Station, Vengurla Year of Establishment: 1957

	Postal Address
	At & Post Vengurle, Dist. Sindhudurg, Maharashtra 416516

	Telephone & Fax Nos. ( Office & Residence Nos.)
	Office Nos. : 02362 – 262234 Residence Nos.262173 Fax No. 262234

	Email Address
	rfrs@goatelecom.com

	Major Activities
	Research Extension

	Area Details ( In Hectares )
	1. Total Area Held 2. Area Under Cultivation 3. Net Area Available	: 65.40 Hectares : 65.40 Hectares : Nil

	Details of various schemes implemented at Research Station ( Including Ad Hoc Schemes )

Sr No	Name of the Scheme	Sponsoring Agency	Status of Scheme( Per. / Ad Hoc )	Commence -ment Year	Crops covered under the scheme	Period of the Scheme	Present Status of Scheme


1	AICRP Cashew	ICAR/State Govt.	Permanent	1986	Cashew		In Progress

2	NATP Cashew	ICAR	Ad-Hoc	2000	Cashew	Upto 30th June 2003	In Last Phase

3	Developing goat based cropping system model for rainfall cashew plantation	ATMA ( Ratnagiri )	Ad-hoc	2003	Cashew	1 Year	Work is yet to start

4	Evaluation of bold cashew type	ATMA	Ad-hoc	2003	Cashew	1 Year	Work is yet to start

5	Collection and Evaluation of germplasm of cashewnut in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg Districts	ATMA	Ad-hoc	2003	Cashew	1 Year	Work is yet to start

6	RCRS Vengurla (Non Plan )	State Govt.	Permanent	1.12.1962	Cashew and Coconut	Permanent	Univ. trial on cashew are being conducted

7	Mangosteen Research Project	State Govt.	Ad-Hoc	2003-03	Mangosteen	One Year	Work in Progress

8	Yield maximization in Alphonso Mango through integrated management approach	ATMA	Ad-hoc	2003	Mango	One Year	Work in Progress

9	Investigating technology to reduce spongy tissue in mango, inducing regular bearing in Alphonso mango	ATMA	Ad-hoc	2003	Mango	One Year	Work in progress

10	RFRS Vengurle ( Non Plan )	State Govt.	Permanent	1.12.1962	Mango and Coconut	Permanent	Trials on cashew are being conducted

11	Pest weather relationship in mango hopper	ATMA	Ad-hoc	2003-04	Mango	Two Year	Work is in progress

12	Institutional Village Linkage Program	ICAR	Ad-hoc	1996	Rice, Vegetables,Groundnut, Mango, Cashew etc.	Up to December 2003	Data of Rabbi trials has been collected and the analysis is in progress

13	Yield maximization in Alphonso Mango through integrated management approach	ATMA	Ad-hoc	2003	Mango	Two Year	Work in Progress

14	Pest risk analysis in grape and mango in Western India	APEDA	Ad-hoc	2001-02, 02-03	Mango	One Year	Work in Progress

15	AICRP ( STF )	ICAR & State Govt.	Permanent	1976	Mango	Continued	Work in Progress

16	NARP-I	Dept. of Horticulture	Permanent	18.2.1984	Mango	--	Work in Progress


	Special Achievements/ Notable Contributions of the Research Stations

Sr. No.	Special Achievement/ Notable Contributions made	Year of Achievement / Contribution
	Mango

1	Collection of germplasm of 233 types

2	Regular bearing variety “Ratna” released	1983

3	Techniques of stone grafting, soft wood grafting has been standardized	1982

4	Regular bearing variety “Sindhu” with very small size stone is released	1992

5	Variety of pickle viz.Konkan Ruchi is released	1999

6	Planting Alphonso “Kesar” and “Goa Mankur” are profitable & there is threefold increase in yield of kesar in comparison with Alphonso	2000

7	Application of Paclobutrazol for inducing regular and early bearing in Alphonso is standardized and advocated	1990

8	Standardization of stages of harvesting of Alphonso mango to avoid occurrence of spongy tissue	1998

9	Development of technique of pruning old unproductive mango orchards	2000

10	Recommendations for reducing spongy tissue in mango	1986

11	Standardization of poly houses for large scale multiplication of nursery plants	1986

12	Recommendation for controlling powdery mildew in mango	1996

13	Recommendation for controlling Anthracnose of mango	1978

14	Recommendation for controlling Loranthus on Mango	1995

15	Recommendation for controlling recurrent flowering	1999

16	Recommendation for increasing pollination and fruit retention	2000

17	Clonal selection of mango variety “ Alphonso-900”	2000

	CASHEW

1	Release of Varieties of Cashew

	Vengurla-1	1974

	Vengurla-2	1979

	Vengurla-3	1982

	Vengurla-4	1982

	Vengurla-5	1984

	Vengurla-6	1992

	Vengurla-7	1997

	Vengurla-8	2000

2	Collection of 237 accessions and out of that 161 accessions have been evaluated for yield performance and planted in the conservation block	Till Date

3	Inclusion of Hybrid No.255, 303, 320 & 367 in MLT	1992

4	Plantation of 2600 F1 hybrids for evaluation	2002-2003

5	Inclusion of Hybrid No. 662 and 675 in MLT	2002

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