College of Agriculture, Junagadh

Horticulture

Professor & Head : Dr. N. D. Polara
Degree & Specialization : M.Sc.(Agri.), Ph.D.
Tel. Phone : (O) +91-285 2672080-90, Ext. No. 336, PBX 336
E-mail : horti@jau.in

Before independence period, Nawab of Junagadh state has their own horticulturist to develop and maintain gardens. After independence, Gujarat state have established the Department of Agriculture to carryout research in agricultural crops including horticultural crops. With establishment of Agriculture College (1960-61), a separate Department of Horticulture was emerged. The Professor & Head of the department was the subject matter specialist of horticulture for Gujarat state. The Gujarat Agricultural University was established during 1972 and the Department of Horticulture had assigned the duty of horticultural work for Saurashtra region (Five districts) under college of Agriculture.
The full-fledged Department of Horticulture was started with multi-functional activities like Teaching, Research and Extension education during 1972 with the inception of Gujarat Agricultural University as an autonomous body. Since May 2004 after bifurcation of Gujarat Agricultural University, the department is also working as a part of College of Agriculture under Junagadh Agricultural University. This department is working for impatiens the horticultural shining for the students and farmers.

Objectives :

1. To provide under and post graduate education in Horticulture subject aiding to bachelor, master and doctorate degrees.
2. To provide post graduate degree in Fruit Science and Floriculture & Landscape Architecture discipline for master and doctorate degrees.
3. To strengthen laboratories for under graduate practical teaching works.
4. To carryout skill enhancement practical work and hands on training for under graduate students.

Faculty Information of staff :

Faculty Strength (Current Position) :

Sr. No.	Name	Designation	Higher Qualification	Experience
1	Dr. N. D. Polara	Professor and Head	Ph. D. (Horti.)	19 years
2	Prof. R. L. Chitroda	Assistant Professor	M.Sc. (Agri.) Horticulture	14 years
3	Dr. S. K. Bhuva	Assistant Professor	Ph. D. (Horti.)	08 years
4	Dr. M. A. Dudhat	Assistant Professor	Ph. D. (Horti.)	11 month

Technical Staff (Current Position) :

Sr. No.	Name	Designation	Qualification	Experience
1	Ms. S. D. Domadiya	Agril. Asstt.	Horti. Diploma	3 years
2	Miss. Nisha R. Mathukiya	Agril. Asstt.	Diploma in Horti.	7 years

Teaching :

Courses offred for UG /PG programmes :
Under Graduate Programme, B.Sc. (Hons.) Agri. as per Sixth dean committee :

Odd / Even	Course No.	Title of the course	Credit
Odd	Hort. 1.1	Fundamentals of Horticulture	(2+1)
Odd	Hort. 3.2	Production Technology of Fruit and Plantation Crops	(1+1)
Odd	Hort 5.4	Ornamental Crops, MAP and Landscaping	(1+1)
Odd	Elective Courses	Landscaping/Protected Cultivation	(3+1)
Even	SEC-11	Commercial Horticulture	(0+2)
Even	Hort 4.3	Production Technology of Vegetables and Spices	(1+1)
Even	RAWE	-	(0+20)

P. G. Programme :

Teaching Programmes offered at P. G. Level :

Sr. No	Programmes	Duration	Starting year
1.	M. Sc. (Flori. & Landscaping)	4 Semester	2007
	M. Sc. (Fruit Science)	4 Semester	2010
2.	M. Sc. (Flori. & Landscape Architecture)	4 Semester	2010
3.	M. Sc. (Vegetable Science)	4 Semester	2016
4.	M. Sc. Programme for In service student	6 Semester
5.	Ph. D. (Fruit Science)	6 Semester	2010
6.	Ph. D. (Flori. & LA)	6 Semester	2010
7.	Ph. D. (Vegetable)	6 Semester	2016
8.	Ph. D. Programme for In service student	8 Semester

Post Graduate Courses offered during odd and even semester :

Odd / Even	Course No.	Title of the course	Credit
Odd	FSC502	Sub-Tropical & Temperate Fruit Production	(2+1)
Odd	FSC505	Propagation and Nursery Management For Fruit Crops	(2+1)
Odd	FSC506	Breeding of Fruit Crops	(2+1)
Odd	FSC606	Systematics of Fruit Crops	(2+1)
Odd	VSC509	Fundamentals of Processing of Vegetable	(2+1)
Odd	VSC508	Organic Vegetable Production Technology	(1+1)
Odd	VSC503	Breeding of Vegetable Crops	(2+1)
Odd	FLA603	Advance in Protected and Precision Floriculture	(1+1)
Odd	FLA507	Turfing and Truf Management	(2+1)
Odd	FLA505	Protected Horticulture	(2+1)
Even	FSC501	Tropical and Dryland Fruit Production	(2+1)
Even	FSC510	Organic Horticulture	(1+1)
Even	FSC503	Biodiversity and Conservation of Fruit Crops	(2+1)
Even	FSC602	Advances in Production in Fruit Crops	(2+1)
Even	FSC603	Advances In Growth Regulation Of Fruit	(2+1)
Even	FSC605	Biotic & Abiotic Stress Management in Horti. Crops	(2+1)
Even	VSC502	Production Technology of Warm Season Veg. Crops	(2+1)
Even	VSC501	Production Technology ofCool Season Veg. Crops	(2+1)
Even	VSC504	Growth and Development ofVegetable Crops	(2+1)
Even	FLA503	Production Technology ofLoose Flowers	(2+1)
Even	FLA501	Breeding ofFlower Crops and Ornamental Plants	(2+1)
Even	FLA602	Advances in Flower Production Technology	(2+1)

P. G. Degree awarded :

Sr. No.	Programmes	From 1973 to 2020	2021 to 2025
1.	M. Sc. (Agri) Horticulture	168	-
2.	M. Sc. (Horti) Flori. & Landscaping	08	-
3.	M. Sc. (Horti) FLA	36	4
4.	M. Sc. (Horti) Fruit Science	63	11
5.	M. Sc. (Horti) Vegetable Science	09	-
	Total	284	15
6.	Ph. D. (Horticulture)	29	-
7.	Ph. D. (Fruit Science)	10	-
8.	Ph. D. (FLA)	11	-
9.	Ph. D. (Flori. & Landscaping)	00	01
10.	Ph. D. (Vegetable Science)	01	-
	Total	51	01
	Grand Total	335	16

Click here to see the M.Sc. Theses Submitted from the year 2004 to 2025 :

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Click here to see the Seminar/workshop/symposia/training organized by the Department (2015 to 2025) :

Seminar / Symposium / Workshop/Online Webinar attended by faculty (2015 to 2025) :

Sr. No.	Particulars	2015-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	Total
1	Seminar	97	8	7	5	6	123
2	Workshop	17	5	2	-	5	29
3	Symposium	02	2	-	-	1	5
4	Training	22	3	3	2	2	32
5	Online Webinar	133	10	12	7	8	170
	Total	271	28	24	14	22	359

Click here to see the Papers Published in Journals (2015-25) :

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Summary of research paper :

Sr. No.	Details of publication	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-25	Total
A	Research paper Above 6 NAAS rating
1	National/ International Journals	01	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	01	02
B	Research paper below 6 NAAS rating
2	National/ International Journals	34	25	34	23	16	21	03	161
3	Book	02	07	01	Nil	1	Nil	-	11
4	Book Chapter	07	05	01	01	Nil	02	-	16
5	Practical manual published	01	03	05	01	-	-	-
C	Research paper presented in seminar/ symposia	-	02	20	12	-	-	-
Total		49	40	41	25	17	23	04	199

List of Gold Medal achieved by PG Student :

Sr. No.	Name of Student	Degree	Year
1	Jadala Shankaraswamy	Ph.D. in Horticulture	2013-14
2	Palagani Neelima	M.Sc. (Hort) in FLA	2013-14
3	Gandamalla Madhuri	M.Sc. (Hort) in FLA	2013-14
4	Bhavna Goutam	M.Sc. (Hort) in Fruit Sci.	2013-14
5	Ku. Bhosale Nilima Diliprao	Ph.D. (Horti.)	2014-15
6	Shri Akula Venu	M.Sc. (Horti.)	2014-15
7	Kava Khyati	M.Sc. (Horti.)	2015-16
8	Elangaiven dhan A.	M.Sc. (Horti.)	2016-17
9	Tejashwini Acharya	M.Sc. (Horti.)	2017-18
10	Rajatiya Jignasha	M.Sc. (Horti.)	2018-19
11	Ku. Purohit Hemanshi P.	M.Sc. (Horti.)	2019-20

Significant achievements by faculties of Horticulture :

Sr. No.	Name of faculty	2020-21
D. Thesis Awards
1	Dr. S. K. Bhuva	1
	Total	01

JRF/SRF/NET passed out students in Horticulture :

Sr. No.	Name of faculty	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20
1	JRF	-	-	01	14	13
2	SRF	02	-	-	03	-
3	NET
4	1. Fruit Science	04	05	08	08	06
5	2. FLA	09	06	02	02	03
6	3. Vegetable Science	01	-	04	04	01
	Total	16	11	15	31	23

Research :

The research work on different disciplines is carried out at different farms under control of this department. Total area under fruit, flower crops and ornamental plants/nurseries is about 55.00 ha with basic irrigation and infrastructural facilities. The research work is going on at P. G. level as well as departmental level. The following research schemes or projects are going on for research work.

On-Going Research Schemes/ Projects :

Sr. No.	Name of the Scheme	B.H	Funding Agency
1.	Scheme for research in horticulture improvement of fruit crops	5014	State Govt. (NP)
2.	Strengthening of horticulture research and development activities	12095	State Govt.(P)
3.	Mali Training Centre	12508	State Govt. (P)
4.	Development of arid and semi-arid fruit crops at Junagadh.	12588	State Govt. (P)
5.	Landscaping and tree plantation	12712-02	State Govt. (P)
6.	Establishment of mango research project at Talala	12021	State Govt. (P)
7.	Establishment of Horticulture wing	12119	State Govt. (P)
8.	Studies on effect of climate change on fruit crops of Saurashtra region.	12030	State Govt. (P)
9.	Protected cultivation of high valued horticultural crops for ELP.	2350	ICAR, New Delhi
10.	Crop improvement in Papaya at Junagadh	12031	State Govt. (P)
11.	Revolving fund	2504	-
12.	Seed production in Aril. Crops and fisheries	18804-1 (RF)	ICAR (Revolving)

Project completed :

Sr. No.	Name of the Scheme	B.H	Funding Agency	Name of PI
1.	Survey of coconut orchards in Gujarat	18125	CDB, Kochi, Kerala	Dr. R. S. Chovatia & Dr. D. K. Varu
2.	Large scale Production of quality seeds/planting materials of horticulture, vegetable and spices crops	18247-04	RKVY	Collaboration with Vegetable Research Station, JAU, Junagadh
3.	Evaluation of plant growth regulator mepiquat chloride 5 % in mango	18124-01	Other Agency	Dr. S. K. Bhuva & Dr. N. D. Polara

Research achievements :

Varieties released/endorsed (2004-2025) :

Sr. No.	Name of the Crop	Name of variety	Year
Release of varieties : 02
1.	Custard apple	Gujarat Junagadh Custard apple-1 (GJCA-1)	2009
2.	Papaya	Gujarat Junagadh Papaya-1 (GJP-1)	2017
Endorsement of varieties :09
1.	Banana	Gandevi selection	2007
2.	Chrysanthemum	IIHR-6	2010
3.	Gerbera	Dana Allen	2012
4.	Gerbera	Pink Elegance	2012
5.	Gerbera	Savannah	2012
6.	Mango	Kesar	2017
7.	Mango	Amrapali	2017
8.	Mango	Sonapari (Hybrid)	2017
9.	Strawberry	Winter Queen	2017
10	Guava	L-49, Shweta and Lalit	2021

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Recommendations for agro-techniques (2004-25) :

Sr. No.	Name of the crop	Recommendations
Fruit crops
1.	Mango	05+3*
2.	Acid lime	02
3.	Papaya	06
4.	Custard apple	03+1*
5.	Sapota	02
6.	Banana	03
7.	Guava	06
8.	Gunda	02
9.	Pomegranate	03
10.	Jamun	01
11.	Coconut	02
Floriculture
12.	Gladiolus	02
13	Carnation	01
14.	Spider lily	01
Vegetable crops
15.	Tomato	01
16.	Cucumber	01
Total		*41+4 = 45**

* Scientific recommendation

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Geographical indication of mango :

Nursery accreditation :

The Department of Horticulture had applied for accreditation for nursery activities to National Horticulture Board, Gurgaon. After critical evaluation of application through documentation and inspection of experts, Department of Horticulture secured three star accreditation certificate during November, 2012.

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Laboratories :

Sr. No.	Name of Lab.	Seating Capacity	Purpose	UG or PG
1.	Lab. 1	35	Practical	UG/PG

Exhibition Hall / Museum / ELP Facilities :

Sr. No.	Name of Museum/ Exhibition / ELP Hall	Size (Sq.m.)	Purpose
1	ELP Unit	1. Poly carbonate = 12.50 x 18.50 (231.25 m2 )	For ELP Work of 7th sem students of B. Sc.(Agri.)
		2. Poly house = 15.00 x 36.00 (540.00 m2 )
		3. Net house-1 =15.00 x 23.00 (345.00 m2 )

Horticultural farms for teaching and research :

Sr. No.	Name of farm	Area (ha.)	Details of activity
1	Sakkarbaugh	14.7	Research experiments and nursery activities are going mostly on mango with availability of nearly 1000 tree of mango with 80 varieties. The fruit orchards like sapota, guava, black jamun are also available. In nursery, the production of softwood grafts of mango is the major activity with producing gnearly10,000 grafts every year.
2	Lalbaugh	16	The fruit orchards like mango, sapota, ber, guava, custard apple, red &white jamun, coconut, etc. are available for academic research purpose. Plant propagules, sapling, grafts, seedling, etc. of various fruit and ornamental crops are also produce in the nursery. Lalbaugh nursery is the selling center of planting materials produce from all baughs of College of Horticulture.
3	Madhadibaugh	9.33	The farm with various varietal fruit orchards available for academic research as well as practical exposure and ELP works to students. It possesses fruit orchard of custard apple with 4 varieties, guava with 4 varieties, coconut with 2 varieties as well as mango, sapota, pomegranate, phalsa, etc. Seed production of papaya is also notable work and producing nearly 100 kg seed of papaya cv. GJP-1. The grafts of custard apple, sapota, black jamun, etc. as well as sapling & seedling of various fruit crops are produce.
4	Jambuvadi/ Khengarvav	14.06	The fruit orchards like sapota, sweet orange, guava, custard apple, gonad, coconut, etc. are available. The farm is located in main campus which is used mostly for the P.G. research for the students of floriculture and vegetable science. Nursery activities on various fruit crops are also going on for the ELP students.
5	Green House	6,238 sqm	Green house unit-1 & 7 are including 2 NVPH, 2 high-tech fan pad poly house, 2 NVPH and 1 net house are located at College of Horticulture. Whereas, 5 green house units including 1 polycarbonate mist chamber, 1 poly house, 2 net house and 1 poly cum net house are located at Jamuvadi farm. Greenhouse units are utilized for academic research, practical work sand ELP student under READY programme by the students.

Extension activities (2015-2025) :

1.	Farmers' training/ lecture	531
2.	Agril. Fairs & Exhibition	22
3.	Farmer's visit	1750
4.	Specific lectures delivered by individual teachers/scientist	162
5.	Visitors (Dignitaries Scientist Administrator, Progressive farmers, and Extension workers) visited this Department, Farms & laboratory	130
6.	Radio talks	27
7.	T V talk	29

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