The partnership will facilitate a close cooperation between both the organisations and would be a milestone in producing disease-free quality planting material of citrus in the country

The ICAR-Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur, Maharashtra signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jai Hind Nursery, Bhiwadi, Alwar District, Rajasthan for containerised nursery propagation technique to produce the disease-free citrus planting material.

Dr Dilip Ghosh, Director, ICAR-CCRI, Nagpur and Anil Kumar, Managing Director, Jai Hind Nursery signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organisations.

Dr Ghosh stated that the partnership is aimed at facilitating a close cooperation between both the organisations and would be a milestone in the area of production of the disease-free quality planting material of citrus in the country.

The institute has standardised the protocol for the containerised nursery production system for citrus. Considering the demand of about 20 million plants of the various commercial citrus cultivars in the country for new plantation and replanting of gaps within an existing orchard, the institute is promoting the nursery production through the PPP mode.