Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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Tripura is a land of high hills, hillocks, interspersed with rivers and valleys having moderately warm and humid climate, well distributed annual rainfall of 2500 mm. The terrain soil and climate of Tripura are ideally suited for rain-fed Horticulture. Tripura, being endowed with fertile soils, abundant moisture and sub-tropical climate offer immense scope for production of a wide variety of tropical and sub-tropical fruits. The climatic conditions of the state suitable for production of a large variety of horticultural crops chief among which include ‘Queen’ and ‘Kew’; varieties of Pineapple. Pineapple (Ananas comosus L.) is a monoecious, monocotyledonous, monocarpic and xerophytic herbaceous perennial plant and its perennial in nature is propitiated through suckers. ‘Queen’ and ‘Kew’ (‘Smooth Cayenne’) are the main cultivars grown in different parts of Tripura. Among the states of north east India Assam is leading in terms of area and production and Tripura is just behind the Assam both in terms of area and production. Tripura produces 178.45 thousand MT from 12.57 thousand ha area (Anonymous, 2017), which is India’s fifth leading state of in pineapple production and Tripura is also share 9.30 per cent of India’s total pineapple production. The variety ‘Queen’ being the most popular for fresh consumption and occupying the largest area. These varieties are well known in the rest of the country. These Fruit products are free of any chemical residue thus making the fruits of Tripura products of organic farming. Pineapple production for export market is a realistic for organic cultivation for small scale organic farmers. The positive effects of organic pineapple production by default in Tripura competing on the global export market for pineapple.

VIT School for Agricultural Innovations and Advanced Learning

Vellore Campus

International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology

Organic Pineapple Production Technology in Tripura – The lone AEZ for Fruits in North East India

There are currently relatively few studies on the use of biochar in organic farming systems, yet there is much that can be learned from historical use charcoal in agriculture and contemporary research in conventional agriculture. From the citrus fields of Japan to basket willow stands of north Great Britain to the famous Terra Preta soils of Amazon Basin, farmers have used biochar, the practice of burying charcoal in soil to improve fertility and tilth for centuries. Biochar has recently had a revival in modern agriculture with this carbon (C)-rich material being widely used as a means of improving soil tilth and promote a more sustainable agriculture. The purpose of this chapter is to briefly describe the nature and properties of biochar and its potential impact on the fertility and function of soils following incorporation with an emphasis on organic agriculture. We briefly review biochar generation and limitations associated with centralized production and distribution. We then discuss in detail the influence of biochar application on soil properties and crop production using organic examples where possible. Finally, we discuss the specific use of biochar in organic farming systems and highlight the San Juan Island experience wherein replicated studies were conducted on ten independent organic farms to assess the influence of locally produced wood biochar on soil properties and processes and crop productivity on the San Juan Islands, WA, USA.

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Organic Farming

Biochar in Organic Farming

Fruit quality of ‘ Grand Naine ' ( AAA ) banana as influenced by varied components of precision farming system

Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry

Heterosis studies in sponge gourd for Earliness and qualitative traits

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Bunch Yield of ‘Grand Naine' (AAA) Banana as Influenced by the Varied Components of Precision Farming Systems

Effect of Organic Inputs and Microbial Consortium on Yield and Soil Health of Knolkhol (Brassica oleracea L. var. gongylodes) Cultivation

{\textcopyright} 2019 Elsevier B.V. Farmers, agencies, agricultural research community and firms require access to tools to analyze and estimate stressed and productive regions to obtain higher yield. At present, this is performed manually using visual interpretation. Recently there has been some development in the detection and mapping of the stressed crop by use of hyperspectral analysis; but, there is an information gap between farmers and information about the location of the crop under stress in the given area. There is an urgent need to provide a robust solution to identify the stressed region in the agricultural area. To address this, a unique application called as VegNet (Vegetative-Network) has been developed, which aims to provide the necessary tools to detect stressed crop locations using the spectral images obtained from UAVs and provide stressed crops condition, location and area covered by those stressed crops. In this paper, a combination of spectral vegetation indices techniques has been highlighted to produce a comprehensive solution for precision agriculture using a UAV and VegNet. This incorporates several algorithms; segmentation, Canny-edge detector, dilation, gap-filling, image extraction and locating the stressed region using spectral modelling based Graphical User Interface (GUI) application for precision agriculture, societal benefit and Environmental research.

International Journal of Pure {\&} Applied Bioscience

Precision Farming a Promising Technology in Horticulture: A Review

A Review Of Works Done Regar

A Review of Works Done Regarding the Impact of Bunch Cover Application in Banana

Fruits are one of the major sources of vitamins, essential nutrients, antioxidants and fibers in human diet. During the last two-three decades, genetic engineering methods based on the use of transgenes have been successfully adopted to improve fruit plants and focused mainly on enhanced tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, increased fruit yield, improved post harvest shelf life of fruit, reduced generation time and production of fruit with higher nutritional value. However, the development of transgenic fruit plants and their commercialization are hindered by many regulatory and social hurdles. Nowadays, new genetic engineering approaches i.e. cisgenesis or intragenesis receive increasing interest for genetic modification of plants. The absence of selectable marker gene in the final product and the introduced gene(s) derived from the same plant or plants sexually compatible with the target crop should increase consumer's acceptance. In this article, we attempt to summarize the recent progress achieved on the genetic engineering in fruit plants and their applications in crop improvement. Challenges and opportunities for the deployment of genetic engineering in crop improvement programs of fruit plants are also discussed. {\textcopyright} 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Recent advances in genetic engineering for improvement of fruit crops

in Horticulture

NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS AP PLI CA TION IN HOR TI CUL TURE: A RE VIEW