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Himachal did pioneering work in managed pollination, still vast scope for improvement: UHF
Solan: The Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, on March 23, 2018, organized a two-day state level seminar on awareness, motivation and technology transfer for Development of Beekeeping.
During the seminar, various aspects of beekeeping including the production of quality hive products, managed honeybee pollination, the importance of queen and mass queen rearing, pollination requirement of commercial vegetable and horticultural crops and safety of insect pollinators from pesticides will be taken up.
Experts will also apprise the participants about the economics of beekeeping, marketing opportunities, and value addition of hive products. The Department also exhibited beekeeping and the technologies used in it.
Explaining about the programme, Dr Anju Khanna, Head Department of Entomology and coordinator Dr Harish Sharma said that Himachal has done pioneering work in the area of managed pollination, but the scope for improvement in this field was vast.
Dr Harish Sharma said that the focus of the seminar is to create awareness among the farmers on the huge potential and benefits of beekeeping and undertake technology transfer for its development in the state. He also shed light on the vital role played by bees in pollination and in increasing the production and quality of various crops.
In his address, UHF Vice-Chancellor and the Chief Guest Dr HC Sharma said,
Beekeeping is one enterprise in which one does not need much infrastructure for starting a new business.
He added that greater emphasis on improving the genetic diversity of the bees was need of the hour in order to derive better results.
Asking the farmers to the take greater pride in their work, the Vice-Chancellor said,
We need to attract youngsters to agriculture and it can only be done when we take pride in the profession. Young agriculture graduates should become agricultural entrepreneurs and provide jobs to people.
Dr Rakesh Gupta, Dean College of Horticulture spoke on the scope of doubling farmers’ income through beekeeping.
He shared that the university has reserved 50 percent of the seats in its B Sc programme for students from the rural areas (those who have passed two exams (Class 8, 10 and 12) from government schools located in rural areas. It was to offer equal opportunity to students from rural background to study agriculture and implement their learning in their own fields.
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The seminar was organized by the Department of Entomology of the university and was sponsored by the National Bee Board
Over 100 participants including farmers from nine districts of Himachal Pradesh are attending the seminar along with students and experts.
Solan: Naincy Sagar, an alumna of Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni has bagged a fellowship for pursuing PhD from France. Nancy has reached France and will be pursuing PhD in Forest Genetics from the University of Orléans under INRAE fellowship. INRAE is France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Naincy has completed her BSc Forestry from College of Horticulture and Forestry (COH&F), Neri in 2018 and MSc Forest Biology and Tree Improvement and Genetic Resources from UAS, Dharwad, under ICAR’s National Talent Scheme. Before leaving for France last week, Naincy was working as a Junior Research Fellow in a research project at COH&F, Neri.
She had applied for a PhD with a scholarship in Forest Genetics which was advertised by INRAE. Naincy was successful in the interview and was awarded a fellowship for three years for pursuing PhD at the University of Orléans. During the course of the PhD, she will receive a total scholarship of around Rs 70 lakh along with medical reimbursement. Naincy will be working on forest tree larch species in the Project titled ‘Vigour at what cost? ‘Trade-off’ of hybrid vigour in Larch-Phenological, morphological and physiological determinants of hybrid superiority in Larix X eurolepis’ with a team of 20 scientists of Joint Integrated Biology Research Unit having expertise in genetics, genomics and physiology for the enhancement of tree and forest diversity
Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Vice-Chancellor of the university spoke to Naincy via web conferencing and congratulated her. Dr. Kaushal, who has also done his doctorate from France, shared some tips and suggestions. He asked Naincy to explore this opportunity to learn about new cultures along with doing research that could help to enhance and conserve forest wealth in the future.
Naincy expressed gratitude towards her father Satya Prakash Sagar (Retd. SDO BSNL) and mother Monika Sagar, who is working as SDO in BSNL for their continuous support for higher studies. She also thanked Vice-Chancellor Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Dean Dr. Kamal Sharma and Dr. Dushyant Sharma, Project Investigator and all the university staff for their support and guidance. The university administration, Dean of COH&F Neri congratulated Naincy and wished her success.
Shimla-Dates for admissions to undergraduate courses for the session 2021-22 in colleges affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University has been extended, which has come as a relief to not only those students who were seeking fresh enrollments in the first year but also to the students of the second and third year.
The varsity informed that the decision was taken after considering requests received from various students regarding the same.
Now, willing students can apply for enrollment in both government and private colleges till 5 PM, October 25, 2021.
This extension of date would benefit students who recently passed supplementary exams or those students of the second and third-year who had missed admission due to delay in declaration of their previous results.
Solan– Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, has extended the last date for applying to various Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes in Horticulture, Forestry, Biotechnology, Agribusiness and Business Management. Applicants can submit their complete online application on the university’s admission portal till 18th October.
The normal seats of BSc (Hons) Horticulture, BSc (Hons) Forestry and B Tech Biotechnology will be filled on the basis of scorecard of ICAR-AIEEA (UG) 2021.
Admissions to MSc, MBA (Agribusiness) and PhD (for normal and self-financing seats) will also be conducted on the scorecard of ICAR AIEEA (PG) and AICE-JRF/SRF respectively. Students who have appeared in the ICAR-AIEEA 2021 for UG and PG, or AICE-JRF/SRF examination and are interested in seeking admission, such students must fill the university online application form before 18th October. Undergraduate aspirants who have not appeared in the ICAR test can however apply for the self-financing seats for B Sc and B Tech Biotechnology programmes run by the university by filling the online application on the university website.
The university has also advised the registered candidates to submit complete online application forms along with online payment acknowledgement slip before the due date. The schedule for online counselling will be announced by the University on the website after the declaration of the ICAR examination result. Application forms other than online mode will not be accepted.
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