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Duration
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2022-23 to 2025-26 |
| Total Cost | Rs. 224.552 Million |
| Location | Faisalabad and Jhang |
Objectives
Following are the key objectives of the project:
- Date Palm varietal development through selection and introduction.
- Development of technology for nursery establishment for date palm.
- Development of novel production technology for quality production of date palm (pollination technique, monsoon rain protection technique, Red palm weevil management and control of suckers mortality technique)
- Development of substantial production technology of papaya (planting geometry, planting time, nutritional requirement, irrigation management and insect pests control measures etc.).
- Screening of suitable exotic papaya hybrids (02 No.) for commercial cultivation.
- Provision of disease free papaya nursery plants to the farmers.
- To devise strategies for the appropriate management of papaya leaf curl virus (PLCV) disease and screening of virus free nursery plants.
- Surveillance of papaya leaf curl virus in the papaya orchards from different districts of Punjab province.
- Dissemination of standardized technologies and capacity building of date palm and papaya growers
Implementation Design
Sponsoring
- Government of the Punjab, Department of Agriculture
Execution
Chief Scientist Agri. (Research), Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad through
- Chief Scientist, Horticultural Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad
- Principal Scientist, Plant Virology Section (PVS), Faisalabad
Civil work
- The work will be executed by the C&W department Government .of the Punjab.
Overall Targets
- Selection of indigenous/ Introduction of exotic cultivar of date palm at DPRSS, Jhang (15)
- Establishment of Germplasm unit at DPRSS, Jhang (2500 Plants to be planted)
- Development of novel production technology of date palm (03)
- Screening of papaya hybrids (03)
- Development of novel production technology of papaya (03)
- Preparation Training manual of Date Palm (03) and Papaya (01)
- Farmers’ training (25)
- Provision of true to type papaya nursery plants to farmers on Government notified rates (21000)
Type and Number of Beneficiaries
- Papaya growers
- Date palm farmers
- Exporters
- Stakeholders
- Nursery men
Expected impact after completion of the Project
- 10-15 varieties of date palm will be selected for germplasm unit.
- Germplasm Unit (2500 date palm plants) will be established.
- 2-3 novel technologies of date palm will be standardized
- 2-3 papaya hybrids will be screened out
- 2-3 novel technologies of papaya will be standardized.
- Total of 21000 true to type fruit plants of papaya will be provided to the farmers in the total project period
- (02) training manual of date palm and papaya will be got published
- Farmers of date palm and papaya will be trained via trainings for their capacity building.