Odisha CHSE +2 Vocational Horticulture case studies
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The Odisha CHSE +2 Vocational Horticulture programme is a higher-secondary vocational stream offered under the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha. It suits students who want a science-linked, practice-heavy route into horticulture after Class 10 - either directly into nursery, orchard, vegetable, floriculture or post-harvest work, or onward into diploma and degree programmes in horticulture, agriculture or allied fields. The Odisha CHSE +2 Vocational Horticulture case studies are 5 cases and about 5,481 words.
1Mango cv. Amrapali orchard with poor fruit set after wet, foggy flowering
Ramesh Sahu owns 0.8 ha of 12-year-old mango cv. Amrapali at Kamakhya Nagar in Dhenkanal district, planted at 5 m x 5 m and never pruned since planting.
1,051 words, about 5 min2Summer tomato in a naturally ventilated polyhouse on the Odisha coast
Sunita Pradhan has erected a 500 square metre naturally ventilated polyhouse at Balipatna in Khurda district: 200-micron UV-stabilised film, roll-up side curtains, no fan-pad cooling, no shade net. She transplanted a private hybrid tomato (advertised as TYLCV-tolerant) on 20 March to catch the off-season market and began harvesting in June.
1,100 words, about 6 min3Low graft success and poor air layering in a Ganjam nursery
A nursery near Berhampur, Ganjam, prepared 4,000 mango stone grafts and 2,000 guava air layers for the 2024 monsoon season. For mango, seeds of local seedling mango were sown in June; rootstocks were lifted at 24 days, when they were 15-20 cm tall and the stems had begun to harden.
1,123 words, about 6 min4Twelve sprays and still 32% fruit damage in brinjal
Bijay Behera grows 0.4 ha of brinjal in Bhadrak district, transplanted in the first week of August. From 30 days after transplanting he has sprayed 12 times in 90 days, rotating monocrotophos 36 SL, cypermethrin 10 EC and an unlabelled 'combination' product bought from a local shop.
1,055 words, about 5 min5Six tonnes of tomatoes, a price crash, and no FSSAI licence yet
An FPO in Daringbadi, Kandhamal district, has collected 6 t of tomato from 40 small farmers in the third week of November. The nearest wholesale market is Bhubaneswar, 250 km away; transport costs 4,500 rupees per 2 t truck and the quoted price there is 6 rupees per kg, with about 12% rejection on arrival for bruising and over-ripeness.
1,152 words, about 6 min