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Rare research in Seedless
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| There are hardly a dozen university colleges in India with a century hold history. Among them is Nagpur 's Agriculture college, marked by its most stately, and prominently featuring, 50-feet tall Palm trees, situated opposite the University Senate building and inside the Maharaj Bagh.
In our time, in the 1940s, the college was famous for the excellent full-length plays put up by the students. But more importantly, what that institution did not receive in good measure are national honours because very pioneering work was done by the faculty in the mid '60s. Seedless oranges (Citrus Reticulata Blanco) were successfully grown in the Telankheri garden of the college. Sadly, the work of those agriculture scientists seems to have gone unrecognised. This extra-ordinary variety of seedless oranges, discussed at the Jorhat Seminar of the Society of Citriculture in 1987, has to-date failed to get registration by the IARI. In this centenary year of their alma-mater it will be a fitting gesture if the two Horticulture Professors, CN Kathale and YN Kunte who are in their '80s, would see the fruits of their scholarly work recognised by the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Pusa. Through the medium of your excellent newspaper one hopes that the authorities concerned will take notice of this achievement of the college in its centenary year.
Mukund B Kunte, New Delhi
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