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Pusa Giant is the variety of Papaya that is Dioecious.
Dioecious means the plant with a male and female flower on different plants.
This is also a gynodioecious variety with high productivity and better keeping quality of fruits. This is also one of the highest papain yielders. This is a vigorous variety and is dioecious.
It is a variety of tall, vigorous trees. The fruits are medium-sized, with high sugar content and red-colored flesh.

Approximately 1600 plants of Amrapali Mango can be planted in one hectare.
Amrapali variety of Mango is a cross between Dashehari and Neelam. It is a dwarf vigorous type with regular and late bearing variety. It yields on average 16 t/ha and about 1600 plants can be accommodated in one hectare.

Coconut Development Board is located at Cochin.
It is a statutory body that came into existence on 12^th January 1981 and functions under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of India for the integrated development of coconut and coconut-related products.
The regional offices at Bangalore in Karnataka, Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Guwahati in Assam. And there are six state centres situated in Orissa, west Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Port Blair.

The flower cluster of the Tomato is known as Truss.
The truss on tomato plants is a group or cluster of smaller stems where flowers and fruit develop. Emerging usually at or near the point where a primary stem meets a secondary or a leaf stem, trusses produce yellow flowers and from its center, small green tomatoes eventually appear.

An optimum seed rate of Onion to get desired plant population is 8 - 10 kg/ha.
Seed rate is the quantity of seed of a crop that is required to sow a unit area of land for optimum crop production.
To maintain optimum plant population in the field for higher yield harvest.
To prevent seed wastage from excess sowing reduces the initial cost of production.

In green vegetables, the limiting amino acid is Methionine.
Limiting amino acids refers to the shortest supply from incomplete proteins that are found in plant food sources.
Methionine is an amino acid. It is found in meat, fish and dairy products. It aids in the breakdown of fats by preventing their accumulation in the arteries, aiding the digestive system and facilitating the elimination of heavy metals from the body, which can be converted into cysteine to prevent toxic damage to the liver.

Grafted Mango becomes ready for transplanting Early.
The grafting of a mango tree is the practice of transferring a piece of mature, bearing tree or scion to a separate seedling called the rootstock.
Mango tree grafting can be done in a one or two-year-old plant or an older tree as well (called the mother plant). After some time, the leaves and then, small buds start sprouting on top. Then you need to cut the mother plant around the top - about two feet from the graft for transplanting.

Botanically Ber fruit is Drupe.
The scientific name of Ber is Ziziphus mauritiana, and is a spiny, evergreen shrub or small tree up to 15 m high, with a trunk 40 cm or more in diameter; spreading crown; stipule spines, and many drooping branches. The fruit is of variable shape and size.
It belongs to the category of drupe fruit which means it is a simple fleshy fruit that usually contains a single seed. As a simple fruit, a drupe is derived from a single ovary of an individual flower.

Asauji is the variety of Pea that is the shortest duration variety.
The early varieties are more popular in India because of better economic returns. They are not high-yielders but give high initial remuneration to the growers. Two pickings of green pods are generally done in these varieties, the first being after 60 days of sowing and the second after 15 - 20 days of first picking.
Asauji is a dwarf, green and smooth-seeded variety developed at IARI. Pods are produced singly, flowering in 30 - 35 days after sowing and blossom appears in 6 - 7 nodes. Pods are about 8 cm long, dark green, narrow and appear round when fully developed.

Pinching is important in the cultivation of the Carnation flower plant.
Pinching plants is a form of pruning that encourages branching on the plant. This means that when we pinch a plant, we are removing the main stem, forcing the plant to grow two new stems from the leaf nodes below the pinch or cut.
The ideal time for pinching is early morning. To get more flowers and to make the plant dense pinching is done.