Summary:
Called the ‘fruit garden’, it will have 200 species of fruit-bearing trees planted on a 50-acre land, which will constitute 2,000 plants in total at the Jnana Bharathi campus. Instead of the usual dig and planting method, the contour trenching method will be carried out. “Contour trenching is an agricultural technique. With the contour trenching method, about 20 varieties of fruit plants have already planted like jamun, mausambi, chickoo, butter fruit, custard apple, mango, grapes, jackfruit, apple, pomegranate and gooseberry. Dr Prasad elaborated on the idea of having the fruit garden at the BU campus..