{"id":114058,"date":"2021-05-29T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T09:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=114058"},"modified":"2021-05-29T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T09:06:17","slug":"low-chilling-apple-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/low-chilling-apple-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-chilling apple variety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : A farmer from Himachal Pradesh has developed an innovative self-pollinating apple variety that does not require long chilling hours for flowering and fruit setting. Accordingly, which of the following statement is correct ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Hariman Sharma is the developer of this new variety<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>HRMN 99 is the name of this variety<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>This apple is bigger in size as compared to other varieties<\/strong><br>a)Only 1.<br>b)Only 2.<br>c)Only 3.<br>d)All of the above<br><strong>Ans. d)<br>Related facts<\/strong><br>A farmer from Himachal Pradesh has recently(May 2021) developed an innovative self-pollinating apple variety that does not require long chilling hours for flowering and fruit setting.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Salient features of the new variety<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hariman Sharma is the developer of this new variety<\/li><li>HRMN 99 is the name of this variety<\/li><li>This apple is bigger in size as compared to other varieties<\/li><li>This has spread to plain, tropical, and subtropical areas in various parts of India, where the temperature is as high as40 -45 \u00baC during summer.<\/li><li>Commercial cultivation of this apple variety has been initiated in Manipur, Jammu, low lying areas of Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka Chhattisgarh, and Telangana, and fruit setting has been expanded to 23 states &amp; UTs so far.<\/li><li>HRMN-99 plants having 3-8 years of age produced 5 to 75 kg fruits per plant per year in four districts of lower Himachal Pradesh, Sirsa (Haryana) and Manipur. It is bigger in size as compared to other varieties, with very soft, sweet, and juicy pulp and striped red over yellow skin colour during maturity.<\/li><li>Commercial cultivation of this variety was initiated at twenty-six farmers&#8217; fields at eight different locations of Bishnupur, Senapati, Kakching districts of Manipur in the year 2015 by NIF(National Innovation Foundation) along with other Institutions wherein farmers were provided the requisite training on best practices for successful apple cultivation.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8212; Pankaj Pandey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1722642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1722642<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : A farmer from Himachal Pradesh has developed an innovative self-pollinating apple variety that does not require long chilling hours for flowering and fruit setting. Accordingly, which of the following statement is correct ? Hariman Sharma is the developer of this new variety HRMN 99 is the name of this variety This apple is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":114059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-114058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114060,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114058\/revisions\/114060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}