To facilitate a close cooperation between both the parties and would be a mile stone in the area of production of disease-free quality planting material Citrus in India

ICAR – Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur licensed and transferred its technology of ‘Containerised Nursery Propagation Technique to Produce Disease-Free Citrus Planting Material’ to M/s Shivar Nursery, Hatla, Taluka Katol, District Nagpur by signing a MoU. Dilip Ghosh, Director, ICAR-CCRI, Nagpur and Prashant Wankhede, Managing Director, Shivar Nursery signed the MoU on the behalf of their respective organisations. This partnership is aimed to facilitate a close cooperation between both the parties and would be a mile stone in the area of production of disease-free quality planting material Citrus in India.

Ghosh informed that the technology of has been standardised by the Institute and is gaining popularity across Maharashtra and in other States as well. ICAR-CCRI is promoting the nursery production through PPP mode and till date has licensed this technology with nine (9) private nurseries across the country, considering the demand of various commercial citrus cultivars in India.