Rajshahi Fruit Research Center has, so far, innovated six new more fruit varieties through intensive field-level research during the last 18 years. The varieties are: BARI Papaya-1, BARI Litchi-1, BARI Batabilebu-3, BARI Kul-1, BARI Kul-2 and BARI Kul-3, which have gained popularity everywhere in the country for the last couple …
Rajshahi Fruit Research Center has, so far, innovated six new more fruit varieties through intensive field-level research during the last 18 years. The varieties are: BARI Papaya-1, BARI Litchi-1, BARI Batabilebu-3, BARI Kul-1, BARI Kul-2 and BARI Kul-3, which have gained popularity everywhere in the country for the last couple …
There are only two kinds of genetically modified agricultural products permitted for commercial production in China - cotton and papaya, a news report said. Agricultural authorities have granted certificates of safety to four types of GM produce - cotton, rice, corn and papaya, of which only cotton and papaya have …
Do you think only ‘Monsanto’ (or any multinational seed company) has the capacity to develop transgenic crops? The answer is a clear ‘no’. Indian scientists, working with public sector research institutions and universities, too have developed many genetically engineered varieties which, in fact, could not move beyond lab or ‘restricted’ …
The papaya mealy bug, a native of Central America, is threatening to wreak havoc in papaya cultivation in many areas of Bangladesh and causing huge economic losses to farmers. The granule-sized pest, believed to have arrived in 2008 via imports feed on the sap, which eventually leads to the plant’s …
About 40 to 54 per cent of the daily consumed foods including fish, milk and baby foods are found adulterated and poisonous and the adulteration is increasing for the last couple of years. This was disclosed in a report prepared by the National Food Safety Laboratory (NFSL) under the Institute …
For more than six months a year, vast swathes of land in the rain-dependent rice belts of Jharkhand remained barren, forcing farmers to migrate to other cities in search of livelihoods. The trend has reversed at least in one place, in the Maoist-infested Bishunpur block in Gumla district
Progressive farmer of Vilathikulam shows the way TAKING STOCK: S. Raja Mohamed, Assistant Director of Horticulture, Vilathikulam, with a team of officials inspecting a papaya tree Jameen Karisalkulam in Tuticorin district. Tuticorin: Land and water could be used in a productive way to raise profitable papaya crop in dry areas …
A group of farmers engaged in Papaya cultivation in Moradabad region have found a desi way of tackling the Papaya Mosaic disease. They spray a dilute solution of groundnut Oil on the crop as soon as the symptoms of the disease appear. The disease doesn
Specific aphid identified as predominant virus vector the papaya ring spot virus causes extensive damages to papaya, watermelon, squash, cucumber and pumpkin. Scientists suggest that the best way to reduce the loss is to cultivate these plants at a distance from each other and avoid their monoculture. A study, published …
If there is an example of a silver bullet among genetically modified (GM) crops, it would be virus-resistant papaya trees. They saved the papaya industry in Hawaii from devastation by the ringspot virus, a serious pathogen that deforms fruit and eventually kills conventional trees.
A Russian study has found papaya (Carica papaya) can heal wounds and burns, lending credence to what people in Asia and Africa, where the fruit is commonly grown, have long known. A team of scientists led by molecular biologist E V Mikhalchik of Russian State Medical University found a gel …
Papaya or Carica papaya is a soft-wooded, evergreen tree. It is mostly cultivated in tropical countries for its easily digestible fruit. In Manipur, there is a belief that papaya flowers are the perfect remedy for diabetes. Slightly bitter in taste, the flowers keep sugar levels in control when consumed regularly …
