A horticulture expert’s efforts make Kolar jackfruit farm a tourist attraction

The efforts of a horticulture specialist in the early 70s to market the likely of jackfruit looks to be yielding fruits now. A great illustration for this is a jackfruit farm established up by late Mari Gowda, the father of horticulture in Karnataka, who was also the Director of Horticulture in the state in the 70s, in Kolar district of Karnataka.

BG Prakash, Dean of University of Horticulture, Tamaka, Kolar district, claimed the Tamaka jackfruit farm in the district was set up in the 70s by late Mari Gowda. He took efforts to provide distinctive kinds of jackfruit from several locations in the place, and cultivate them in a dry-land region like Kolar.

With all over 1600 jackfruit trees, this farm is possibly 1 of the most significant jackfruit farms in the place. He claimed that forty nine kinds of jackfruit are developed in this farm.

Stating that jackfruit crop has been attracting the attention of many persons now, he claimed Tamaka jackfruit farm receives all over 10,000 vacationers a year. A great range of college students are also checking out this farm, he claimed.

Prakash claimed this while providing the inaugural deal with at a webinar on ‘jackfruit as crop of future’, organised by the Tamaka-primarily based University of Horticulture on Friday. The school, which came into existence in 2009, is controlling this farm now.

Nagaraj KS, Assistant Professor at Fruit Science Department of the school, who dealt with a specialized session, highlighted the kinds discovered by farm universities in the place.

He claimed some of the farmers’ kinds are also in great need. In truth, Gubbi and Tiptur taluks of Tumakuru district have many kinds of crimson jackfruit.

He also highlighted the kinds developed and chosen by the farmers in coastal Karnataka and Maharashtra.