Return of the native: The Nilgiris planning to promote cultivation of native fruit trees

The Nilgiris territory medication and the Department of Horticulture person undertaken a caller inaugural to revive and beforehand the cultivation of autochthonal effect trees successful the district. They person acceptable speech an acre of the pomological presumption successful Coonoor specifically for autochthonal effect trees. The inaugural was inaugurated connected June 17 by District Collector Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru.

The initiave focuses connected the cultivation of chaotic figs, monkey fruit, chaotic guavas, jamuns and Eleocarpus tectorius, commonly known arsenic Vikki fruits. The District Administration and the Department of Horticulture are besides encouraging farmers to cultivate these fruits.

The District Collector said the presumption besides provided guidance and enactment for the accumulation of saplings of assorted autochthonal ornamental and flowering histrion taxon recovered successful the Nilgiris district, a property merchandise from the territory medication said.

The District Collector visited the orchards of farmers successful Coonoor who are known to cultivate peaches, plums, pears, grapes, oranges and lemons.

Officials from the Horticulture Department said the pomological presumption has besides go a tract for vertebrate watchers owed to the fruiting trees connected the premises. They said they expected the assortment of birds to summation with the planting of the autochthonal trees, encouraging section farmers and plantations to besides instrumentality up the initiative.

They besides appealed to radical to sojourn the presumption and acquisition nutrient grown successful Coonoor.