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Brief CV of Dr M Abdul Salam, Vice Chancellor UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT 2011

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The CV prior to assuming office as Vice-Chancellor

Dr. M. Abdul Salam, Ph.D.Vice chancellor, University of Calicut,Calicut University P.O. PIN: 673 635, Kerala, IndiaTel: 00 91 494 2402000 (Residence)00 91 494 2400241 (Office), Fax: 00 91 494 [email protected],[email protected]

Education

B.Sc.Agriculture (1973) Faculty of Agriculture, Kerala University

M.Sc. Agronomy (1976) Kerala Agricultural University (KAU)

PhD Agronomy (1984) Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

Post doctoral Training: University of Aberdeen, U.K

Asst/ Associate/ Professor at University level : 36 years

Bank Officer

As Full Professor : 13 years

Administrative experience : 15 Years

Administrative experience- Break up

Head of Research Station : 9 years

Associate Dean, KAU : 2 yearsHead of department in KAU : 4 years.

Administrative experience : 15 Years

Head of Research Station; He served as a Head of Cashew Research station/

Instructional Farm under KAU for a period of 9 years and gained substantial

experience in human resource management, research management and financial

management.

Associate Dean, KAU. By serving as, Associate Dean of an Agricultural college

(KAU) for a period of 2 years, he gained substantial expertise in the managementof scientific and supporting human resources , infrastructure related to research,

education and extension , natural resources related to agriculture as well as

management of time.

Head of department in KAU: As Head of a department in Kerala Agricultural

University for 4 years , he acquired skills excellent skills of Administration and human

resource management to serve as a successful administrator in an education/

research/ extension system in a University.

In all, he has a administrative experience of 15 years (out of his total service of 35

years) in a university administrative system.
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Specialization: Educationist, Researcher and Trainer

Agriculture: Agronomy Cashew nut production, Irrigation water management,

Soil fertility management, Organic farming, Bio-ethanol from cashew apple

Educationist and Agricultural Scientist

Agriculture: Agronomy- Advances in Crop Production, Soil fertility management,Water Management, Organic farming

Special Skill

Use of radio and stable isotopes in Agriculture, Use of FAO CROPWAT in

estimation of crop water requirements and irrigation scheduling

Current Research Area

Sustainable Agriculture, Cashew nut Production and Processing, Organic

production of cereals, vegetables and fruits, Irrigation water management,

Tropical cereal and pulse crop production, Tolerance of crops to abiotic stress

Collaborating Institute/Organization

University of Aberdeen, UK, Kuwait University, National Research Centre for

cashew, ICAR, Puttur

Post doctoral Research

Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Aberdeen, UK (1992)

Visiting Professor

Kuwait university, Kuwait (2003-2007)

Details of Work Experience

1. Dr. M. Abdul Salam is working as Vice Chancellor of Calicut University from 12-08-2011. He is a very senior Agricultural Scientist and a well known Educationist from India

specialized in Tropical Agriculture (Agronomy) for over three decades. He has born in a

remote rural village of Kerala, as the second son of a farmer, on 10 th May 1952. He took

his Bachelors degree in Agriculture from Kerala University (1973), Masters Degree in

Agriculture (Agronomy) from the Kerala Agricultural University (1976) and Doctrate in

Agriculture (Agronomy) from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India (1984). He has

a brilliant academic record all throughout his career. With Commmon Wealth Academic

Staff Fellowship, he completed his Post Doctoral Research at the University ofAberrdeen, UK (1992). Dr Salam has exposure/ worked in 15 countries (UK, USA,

Suriname, Brazil, Mozambique, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE , Kuwait, Kenya, DRC,

Angola, Tanzania and Liberia) , as an agricultural Advisor/Consultant/ Educationist.

2. Experience: He has 36 years of working experience as Agricultural Scientist/Educationist/ Researcher/ Extension Officer/ Agricultural finance officer in Tropical

agriculture. His work involved identification of relevant crops/varieties/ farming/

cultivation techniques and management and advising on their adaptation and adoption in

developing countries towards achieving optimal resource use in a sustainable way, for

achieving food security and promoting environmental sustainability. He served as a

Professor, as a research scientist, research administrator, development specialist,


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consultant and advisor in several nations, keeping his parent organization as Kerala

Agricultural University (KAU).

3. Administrative experience: 15 years: By serving as Head of a research station inKAU, Associate Dean of an Agricultural college (KAU) and Head of a department in

Kerala Agricultural University, for more than 15 years (out of his total service of 35years) , he acquired excellent skills of Administration and human resource management.

4. A thinker and Policy Maker: As a thinker and policy maker in agricultural education,research, extension and development areas, he has contributed substantially towards

achieving food security, drinking water security, environmental sustainability as well as

sustainable use of natural resources, in India as well as in several other nations.

5. Full Professor: 14 years in KAU : Starting his acreer as an assistant Professor, heserved as Assistant/ Associate/ Professor in Kerala Agricultural University during the last

three decades, undertking teaching in Agriculture (at undergraduate, Masters and

doctoral levels), Research and communitty services (Transfer of Technology) to farmers.As a full Professor, he served for 14 years in KAU.

6. Experience as advisor in Tropical Agriculture: He served as an ITEC Expert/advisor to government of Suriname and as a visiting Professor in Kuwait University.

He has acquired substantial experience in Tropical Agriculture in Asia and Africa. His

exposure in Tropical Agriculture/ dry land farming in Kuwait, Mozambique, Malawi,

Tanzania, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Democratic

Republic of Congo, Liberia and Angola as an agricultural advisor /

expert/educationist/consultant/researcher helped him to acquire excellent experience to

evolve policies to utilse the natural resources in a sustainable manner. In Kuwait, he was

doing dryland resaerch focussing date palm and vegetable production under moisture

stressed/ environmrnts. He has good understanding of agricultural policy and water use

management in stressed environments. Dr Salam has adequate capability to develop

national policies for natural resource management. With decades long experience as an

international consultant/ professor/ researcher/extension specialist/ trainer and policy

maker in several countries, and as a research guide for several students at Masters and

doctoral level, the applicant possess excellent skills of a planner, advisor, communicator

and policy maker to governments . As he has worked as a team leader for several years

in research and development, he has proven ability to work with little supervision and to

develop and maintain good professional relations with a variety of stakeholders,

especially staff members, farmers, administrators and political leaders.

7. International ExperienceIndia: For more than three decades, based at Kerala Agricultural University, he was

working in tropical agricultural research and development, as Professor, in the area of

crop production, water management, drought tolerance and faming systems in the

states of Kerala. He also has collaborative research experience with SAUs of Tamil

Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, and West Bengal. His

research focus involves enhanced water use efficiency and to improve cop production

in rain fed agriculture using new varieties and improved technologies. He could

develop water management strategies for rice, cashew, coconut, ground nut andbanana for India.


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Suriname: He was working as an ITEC expert/ advisor to the Government of

Suriname to utilise their dry lands more productively for agriculture. Strategies were

formulated to utilise the natively adopted crop varieties and new technologies to

achieve sustainable production. An agricultural development project was prepared for

Suriname to effectively utilise their dry lands. The main task was to evolve solutionsfor increasing the agricultural productivity of dry land environments

Brazil: He was a mission leader to Brazil to study the potential and prospects of the

varieties and technologies in cashew developed by Brazil, for adoption to Suriname.

New precocious cashew varieties and the fertigation packages developed by Brazil

were found to be very interesting

Kuwait: He was working as a visiting Professor in Kuwait University for four years

and his main task, in addition to teaching was to develop new water use

management practices in the arid severely arid areas of Kuwait. He could develop

water management practices for date palm, potato, maize, Cucumber and barley, for

the arid areas of Kuwait. His main task was to address the constraints of stressed

environments and to formulate solutions for increasing the agricultural productivity of

moisture stressed environments

Mozambique: At the initiative of ADRA, a US based NGO, the main task in

Mozambique was to develop a dry land use policy/technology package for

Mozambique, utilising cashew. Training programmes to few batches of extension

officers and farmers were also conducted for the sustainable use of dry lands. The

main objective was to address the constraints of dry land farming areas and to

formulate solutions for increasing the agricultural productivity of Mozambique

Malawi: Here again, the task was todevelop a project for the utilisation of the dry

lands, to achieve food security of the rural farmers. Cashew, pulses and cereals were

the candidate crops. The task was to address the constraints of dry land farming

areas and to formulate situation specific solutions for increasing the agricultural

productivity of rain fed lands

Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Angola: The main tasks

in these nations were to conduct a resource analysis and a feasibility study for using

the dry lands for organic agriculture, utilising cereals, pulses, oil seeds and fruits as

the candidate crops. The proposal was for increasing agricultural production. It wasalso indented to analyse the constraints of dry lands and to develop scientific

methods/ techniques to improve the productivity of dry lands

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: The task assigned in KSA was to develop a land use

policy strategy in the GAZAN area of KSA, to utilize their arid lands for the production

of banana, vegetables and cashew. The main objective was to formulate methods

and strategies to increase the water productivity of moisture stressed areas and to

achieve water use efficiency, so as to optimise/ increase productivity of the arid

areas.


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UAE: The main task in UAE was to study the status of Tissue Culture in date palm

planting material production, techniques of date palm cultivation and new methods of

date fruit processing in UAE

Liberia: His responsibility in Liberia was to conduct a resource and constraint

analysis in the Monrovia area of Liberiaand todevelop a project for the utilisation ofthe dry lands of that country, to achieve food security of the rural farmers, utilising

rubber, Cashew, pulses, tubers and cereals as candidate crops.

UK: He was doing my post doctoral research for one year in the University of

Aberdeen, UK. The research project involves studies on the fate of applied Nitrogen

in soil using 15N techniques.

USA: He was assigned with a task to evaluate a technology developed by the

University of Wisconsin, USA (Potato Mini tuber production technology) for producing

high yielding disease free planting materials.

Oman: He has also served as an Agricultural consultant in Oman

During the recent years, he is actively concentrating on promotion of Organic farming

and Good Agricultural Practices, Conservation Agriculture and Integrated Pest

Management in Tropical Agricultural production systems. In addition, he is active in

participatory approaches (development, research and Transfer of technology) to

achieve food security and serve as a campaigner to create awareness of climate

change and methods of mitigating the same.

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Fluency in written and spoken English: He has good fluency in both spoken andwritten English. He has also acquired good communication skills, including writing and

public speaking and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment. He has no hesitation

to o travel periodically. He also has strong analytical and drafting skills.

9. Computer proficiency: He possesses a very good proficiency in computer software,Excel, Word, and power point. Working at different levels/positions, including

administration, he has excellent experience in office management and ability to get along

well with inter-disciplinary research and development teams.

10.Publications: He Published 13 books,154 reseach papers, 15 review articles, 8extension bulletins and 3 book chapters, mnostly related to dryland based productionsysytems. He received several awards and scientific recognitions for his contributions

to agricultural science. He is a receipient of the Honorable Vice president Dr. G.S.

Pathaks pize (for his Ph.D. research) and the best Agricultural Scientist award (Krishi

Viingyan Award) of the government of Kerala (1999-2000).

11.Guidance: He guided 52 students at Masters / Doctrate level and offered 17 courses atunder graduate level and 10 courses at Masters and Doctoral level .His research areas

include Dry land farming, drought tolerance in crops, water use efficiency, Moisture

management under limited supply of water, Organic food production ( vegetables and

fruits), Irrigation water management, Tropical crop production and Tolerance of crops to

a-biotic stress


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12.Natural resource management: He has strong background in natural resourcesmanagement (soil, water and biodiversity) to achieve sustainable development and to

promote sustainable agriculture. He has recently completed a resaerch project : Crop

Water And Irrigation Water Rquirements Of Date Palm, Potato, Maize, Barleyand

Cucumber in the Entisols Of Kuwait. He has Developed irrigation schedules for date palm,

potato, maize, cucumber,barley, rice, cashew, coconut, ground nut and banana.

13.Training specialist: As a training specialist, he cinducted 43 training programs(including one international and two national) in agricultural extension. He has very good

inter-personal skills in communication and training.

14.Extensive field experience:As an AGRONOMIST he has extensive field experience inagricultural development, research transfer technology and training manpower, in several

developing countries.

Major Research Accomplishments

Developed irrigation schedules for potato, maize, cucumber,barley, rice,cashew, coconut, ground nut, date palm and banana

Evolved two high yielding varieties of cashew (Priyanka and Amrutha) with ayield potential of about 3.5 tones of raw nuts per ha

Another TWO high yielding cashew hybrids (H 1600 & H 1610) were evolvedand proposed for release (these hybrids are approved by the KAU variety

release committee).

Identified a high yielding precocious cashew dwarf (KGN-1) suitable for highdensity planting.

Developed a Soil-test based and productivity linked fertilizer recommendationmodel for cashew

The adaptability of a high yielding variety from TNAU (M 26/2) , to Keralaconditions was established

Identified four drought tolerant cashew varieties ( H 1591, M 26/2, M 44/3and V5) , which form a precious biological wealth to exploit the natural

resources of the dry areas

Standardized a high density planting technique for cashew Formulated a technology package for enhancing cashew nut production in the

state

Identified the physiologically active phase for nutrient absorption anddeveloped a location specific nutrition strategy for cashew

Portrayed the root profile of cashew Identified the factors affecting foliar absorption of nutrients and evolved an

effective foliar nutrition strategy for cashew

Evolved an effective weed control strategy for cashew plantations


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Quantified the nutrient off-take in cashew Established 40 cashew demonstration plots (one acre size), as a part of TOT

in cashew

Written and published 13books (English and Malayalam) to benefit farmers,extension workers and scientists.

15.Peer Recognitions Listed in Marquis who is who in the World Member-KAU-Expert team-Cashew to study cashew pest problem (1998) Member-Expert team- Calicut Univ. to study environmental problem in cashew Expert committee member-Govt. of Kerala- to study the Endosulfan issue (2001) KAU - Expert committee member- to study the Endosulfan issue (2001) Member of cashew development council - Govt. of Kerala Project Co-ordinator- cashew research (KAU) Deputed as a Cashew Expert to Govt. of Suriname by GOI. Member of Cashew Development Council - Govt. of Kerala Project Co-coordinator - Cashew Research (KAU)

16. Membership in Professional societies and activities in civic, public & Internationalbodies

Life member of the Indian Society of plantation crops

Journal of agro meteorology

Kuwait Journal of science and Engineering

Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution

Mangalore cashew growers association

Adventist Development and relief agency, Mozambique

STIMOPRO, Cashew growers, Suriname

Gazan Agricultural Development Programme, Saudi Arabia

Date palm development programme, PAAFR, Kuwait

Farmers world group of companies, , lilongwe, Malawi

Member of the New York Academy of Sciences

17.International Conferences attended: (2)Crop water and irrigation water requirements of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) in

the entisols of Kuwait: Third International Conference Date palm Organised by UAE

University at Abu- Dhabi from 19-21st February 2006- Oral presentation

Free radicals in Biosystems.Inyternational Conference (18-21 March 2007) Organised

by Kuwait University, Kuwait


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18.Awards receivedSlNo

Name of Award AwardingInstitution

Year National/international

1 Krishi Vinjan Award of Govt. of Kerala Govt. ofKerala

1999-2000

State

2 Sri. S.R.P. Ponnuswamy Chettiar Medal andShield for Ph.D TNAU 1984-85 University

3 Vice-President G.S. Pathak's Prize for Ph.D. TNAU 1984-85 University

4 Founder Chairman Karumuthu ThiagarajanChettiar Medal for Ph.D

TNAU 1984-85 University

5 Foreign Examiner's Donation Medal for Ph.D. TNAU 1984-85 University

6 Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship(1991-92)- Post-Doctoral Res. in U.K

UK !991-92 International

7 Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)Senior Fellowship for Ph.D

ICAR 1981-84 National

8 Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)Junior Fellowship for M.Sc. (Ag)

ICAR 1973-75 National

National conferences/ seminars/ Workshops attended : 27

International Conferences attended : 2

Training Programmes conducted : 40

Publications

Books : 13Research papers : 153Review articles : 15

Extension bulletins : 8Book chapters : 3Popular articles : 37

Research Papers- refereed : 153

Radio talks : 17

Television programs presented : 1 (Softwood grafting technique in cashew)

Video cossets produced : 4: i) Cashew varieties: ii) Cashew propagation:iii) Cashew nut production and protection:iv) Cashew nut processing

Books Published by Dr M abdul Salam

Research Area number

Water management & agro meteorology 11

Cashew 60

Rice 42

Farming systems 20

Oilseeds, pulses and others 20

Total research papers 153


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DECLARATION

I, Dr M Abdul Salam do hereby declare that the statements made and informationfurnished above and the enclosures submitted by me as documental evidence are true tothe best of my knowledge and belief.

Place: Trivandrum SignatureDate: 11-11-2011 Name:Dr M Abdul Salam

Books Published by Dr M Abdul Salam

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Title of publication Year ofpublicatio

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Name of Journal/Publisher/Place of publication

Author(s)

1 Cashew -Varietal Wealth of India 2001 Kerala Agric. University. pp.101

Abdul Salam, M and BhaskaraRao, E.V.V

2 Cashew-High Yielding Varieties andCultivation Techniques (Malayalam)

2001 Kerala Agricultural University Abdul Salam, M. & Nalini

3 Rooting Patterns of Tropical Crops 1993 Tata McGraw-Hill PublishingCo. Ltd., New Delhi. pp. 331

M. Abdul Salam andP. Abdul Wahid

4 High Yielding Varieties of Cashew 1995 Directorate of Cashew nutDevelopment, Cochin. p.45

Abdul Salam, M andMohanakumaran, N

5 Kasumavil Ottuthai UtpadanavumParicharanavum

1998 Directorate of Cashew nutDevelopment, Cochin, Indiap.24

Abdul Salam, M.,Mohanakumaran, N. &Balasubramanian P P

6 Cashew Cultivation - Science &Techniques

1998 Directorate of Cashew nutDevelopment, Cochin, Indiap.60

Abdul Salam, M.,Mohanakumaran, N andBalasubramanian, P.P

7 Cashew Calendar 1998 Directorate of Cashew nutDevelopment, Cochin, India

p.60

Abdul Salam, M.,Mohanakumaran, N and

Balasubramanian, P.P8 Kanakam Koyyan Kasumavu 1996 Directorate of Cashew nut

Development, Cochin p. 132P.P. Balasubramanian and M.Abdul Salam 1996

9 A Farmer's Primer on Growing Cashew 1992 KJP Res. Foundation,Eraviputhurkadai, KanyakumariDt. pp 140

Abdul Salam, M., Pushpalatha,P.B., Aravindakshan, M,Balakrishnan, S., Balasubramanian,P.P. and Hrishi, N.

1 A Guide to Rice Growers 1991 Institute of Languages, Gov. ofKerala pp. 120. (Malayalam)

Abdul Salam, M. and Tajuddin, E.

1 A Farmer's Primer on CoconutCultivation

1993 Kerala Agric. University. pp.136

Wahid, P.A., Salam, M.A. andNair, R.R

1 Thengu Krishikoru Marga Rekha 1993 Kerala Agric. University. pp.136

Wahid, P.A., Salam, M.A. andNair, R.R

1 Cashew A Monograph 2010 Studium Press (India ) New Delhi Abdul Salam, M & KV Peter


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CASHEW_ A MONOGRAPHDr. M. Abdul Salam and Dr. K. V. Peter. (2010)

Studium Press (india) Pvt Ltd, New delhi


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ROOTING PATTERNS OF TROPICAL CROPSDr. M. Abdul Salam and Dr. P. Abdul Wahid. 1993.

Tata McGraw Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi


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CASHEW-VARIETAL WEALTH OF INDIAAbdul Salam, M. and Bhaskara Rao, E.V.V. 2001.

Kerala Agricultural University p.101


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A FARMERS PRIMER ON COCONUT CULTIVATIONWahid, P.A., Salam, M.A. and Nair, R.R. 1993.



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HIGH YIELDING VARIETIES OF CASHEW

Abdul Salam, M. and Mohanakumaran, N. 1995.Directorate of Cashew nut Development. Cochin, India p.45



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CASHEW CULTIVATION-SCIENCE & TECHNIQUES

Abdul Salam, M., Mohanakumaran, N. and Balasubramanian, P.P. 1998.Directorate of Cashew nut Development, Cochin, India p.60


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KASUMAVIL OTTUTHAI UTPADANAVUMPARICHARANAVUM (Malayalam)

Abdul Salam, M., Mohanakumaran, N. and Balasubramanian, P.P. 1998.Directorate of Cashew nut Development. Cochin, India p.24


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CASHEW CALENDAR (MALAYALAM)

Abdul Salam, M., Mohanakumaran, N. and Balasubramanian, P.P. 1998.

Directorate of Cashew nut Development. Cochin, India p.60



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KANAKUM KOYYAN KASUMAVU

Balasubramanian, P.P. and Abdul Salam, M. 1996.Directorate of Cashew nut Development, Cochin, India p.132



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A GUIDE TO RICE GROWERS(Malayalam)

Abdul Salam, M. and Tajuddin, E. 1991.Institute of Languages, Govt. of Kerala p.120 (Malayalam)



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THENGU KRISHIKORU MARGA REKHAWahid, P.A., Salam, M.A. and Nair, R.R. 1993.




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A FARMERS PRIMER ON GROWING CASHEW

Abdul Salam, M., Pushpalatha, P.B., Aravindakshan, M., Balakrishnan, S., Balasubramanian,P.P. and Hrishi, N. 1992. KJP Research Foundation, Eraviputhurkadai, Kanyakumari Dt. p.140



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CASHEW-HIGH YIELDING VARIETIESAND CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES

(Malayalam)

Abdul Salam, M. and Nalini, P.V. 2001.Kerala Agricultural University


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Cashew variety released by Dr M Abdul Salam

AMRUTHA (H 1597)

Amrutha is the second high yielding cashew hybrid evolved by the applicant. It has a

production potential of 3.6 t of raw nuts per hectare, with an export grade of W 210

(Medium sized kernels). This variety is capable of boosting the export of cashew kernelsfrom the country in a big way.


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Cashew variety released by Dr M Abdul Salam

PRIYANKA (H 1591)

Priyanka is a high yielding cashew hybrid evolved by the applicant. It has a

production potential of 3.4 t of raw nuts per hectare. This is the first cashew hybrid released

in India with an export grade of W 180 (bold kernels). The kernels of this variety are dearest

in the export market. This variety can go a long way to increase the export prospects of

cashew from the country.


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PRECOCIOUS CASHEW DWARF identified by Dr M Abdul Salam

PRECOCIOUS CASHEW DWARF

For the first time in the history of cashew research in the country, the applicant

identified a high yielding cashew dwarf. This is a highly precocious type capable of

bearing right from the first year of planting. This is a dwarf and compact type, suitable

for high density planting. This variety offers considerable scope to revolutionize the

cashew nut production and export of kernels from the country.

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