Accredited Nurseries

Availability of true to type, quality planting material is crucial for success of commercial horticulture. This necessitates having a net-work of Horticulture Nurseries which conform to Model Nursery Standards in terms of infrastructure, quality of seed and planting materials and adoption of nursery management practices. State Governments ensure supply of quality planting materials for fruit crops by enactment of Fruit Plant Nursery (Regulation) Act and enforcement of its provisions through licensing of horticulture nurseries.

National Horticulture Mission has taken initiative to specify the nursery standards by specifying Infrastructure required for setting up of model horticulture nursery etc. ICAR has recently come out with technical specification of horticulture planting material and its production procedure in a recently published document titled as “Handbook of Seed and Planting Material Testing Manual for Horticultural Crops”. Existing rules framed under Horticulture Nursery (Regulation) Acts provide for record keeping part for such nurseries. However, each one of them individually does not completely define a model horticulture nursery. Therefore, it is imperative to define a model nursery in all the three aspects of nursery infrastructure, production system & quality parameters of planting material and good nursery management practices in a comprehensive manner and put a nursery recognition regime in place. A recognized model horticulture nursery should function as a reliable source of supply of quality planting material for horticulture crops. With a view to ensure availability of good quality planting material as outlined above, NHB has started a system of recognition of horticulture nurseries on voluntary basis.

Scope:

1. The scope of the scheme is to establish a network of quality nurseries across the country for the purpose of propagation and distribution of quality planting material of specified horticulture crops. The recognition shall be accorded to the nurseries for:
   1. Production of quality planting material of one or more specified crops by adopting Good Nursery management Practices,
   2. Nursery Premise only where sale of specified quality planting material of recognized source are being carried out by creating necessary infrastructure facilities and proper record keeping.
   Note: If different premises are being used for nursery, recognition of all these are required to be obtained separately and individually.
2. The recognition shall be accorded to the nurseries for the crops specified in the document of recognition
3. Recognition shall be granted as such or after up gradation as per requirement.
4. Nursery farms licensed under State Act by competent authority shall be given provisional recognition for a period of one year under the purview of this scheme but their final recognition will be subject to assessment by technical committee.
5. Recognition of nursery with NHB shall be period specific.

Procedure for Nursery Recognition and Renewal of Recognition

1. The nursery seeking NHB recognition shall apply to NHB HQ at Gurgaon. Each such application shall be accompanied by layout of nursery showing location of infrastructure components and land utilization plan, details of technically qualified staff in the nursery, major farm machineries and operational manual prepared by nursery for selection and maintenance of mother plants, process followed for production of planting material and management of inventory of planting material. The Nursery shall submit details regarding source of mother plants used for propagation of horticulture plants in prescribed form and shall also maintain a register for sale of horticulture plants.
2. The application form duly completed along with necessary enclosures shall be submitted to NHB, Head Office at Gurgaon.
3. Each application will be considered by NHB based on criteria specified for recognition of nursery.
4. The recognition of nursery by NHB shall generally be considered product wise/aspect wise as required.
5. On receipt of the application for recognition, assessment would be done by agency identified by NHB with the help of a technical committee.
6. Agency shall submit its assessment report to NHB along with recommendations.
7. On the basis of the assessment report NHB shall decide whether to register the nursery with or without up-gradation.
8. The decision of NHB shall be conveyed to the concerned nursery. In case of recognition, the period of validity of recognition with other terms and condition shall be indicated. In case of any deficiency, the nursery shall be given time frame for compliance; failing which, the application shall be rejected. In case of requirement, additional assessment visits may be undertaken.

Criteria for Nursery Assessment The criteria have been aligned with Infrastructural requirement of modal nursery and product specific technical requirement and adoption of good nursery practices for propagation of good quality planting material as detailed below:

1. Product specific criteria to asses for capability and competence of nursery follow technical programme for specific crop as laid down in “Handbook of Seed and Planting Material Testing manual for Horticulture crops” prepared by ICAR.
2. Prescribed nursery management practices and adoption of model layout plan.

Assessment Criteria: A system of Graded Certification: - It is essentially different from licensing of horticulture nurseries under provision of some act or administrative orders. It is based on continuous evaluation of source of parent material, propagation in disease free condition by adoption of technically prescribed method, adoption of good nursery management practices, reliable record keeping and training of staff. Each parameter will be critically examined by assessment team as per laid down criteria.
Following grading shall be provided:
Click here to see the table of Grading criterion of fruit nursery.

Grading criterion of fruit nursery.

Grade

Location

Mother Plants

Technology

Infrastructure for Production

Bio-Security and Disease Free Condition

Operation Manual

Staff & Quality

Trade Relations

Location of Nursery and Area in Ha.

Authentic Source of mother plants

Mother Plants with known pedigree records

Area of Mother Plant

Technology of Propagation

Infrastructure for Disease free growth of planting material

Facility for Hardening

Facility for Fertigation & Media Preparation

Facility for storage

Irrigation Water Sufficiency & Quality

Free from Nutrient Deficiency

Free from Disease Infestation and Facility of biological control

Bio-security Protocol adopted

Flow Chart with Time Scale for the Production Process

Identify the inputs necessary for each stage of production and develop specifications and requirements for each input

Develope procedures to verify that each input meets the specification standsrds

Labeling of each planting material produced

Record Keeping

Staffing Pattern

Training level of Staff

Trading with Recognised nursery only

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Ideal and >5Ha

M

M

M

>8

>8

>8

>8

>8

>8

>8

>8

>8

M

M

M

M

M

M

>8

M

* *   * *

Ideal and >3Ha < 5Ha

M

M

M

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

>6 to 8

M

M

M

M

M

M

>6, <8

M

* * *

Not Less than 1Ha

M

R

M

5 to 6

5 to 6

5 to 6

5 to 6

5 to 6

5 to 6

5 to 6

5 to 6

5 to 6

M

M

M

M

M

M

>5, <6

M

*

R

OS

R

OS

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

M

M

R

M

M

R

>5

M

*

R

T

R

T

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

Above 5

M

M

R

M

M

R

>5

M

301 Ranvir Nursery (Geeta Ram S/o Sh. Niku Ram) Address: V.P.O.-Puruwala,Tq.- Pontasahib, Distt.- Sirmour (Himachal Pradesh) Contact: Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Dashehari 15 7000	302 Ravi Nursery Address: Village- Dombar Koppa, District - Belgaum (Karnataka) Contact: 9448160694 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Mallika 150 30000
303 Regional Agricultural Research Station Address: Village-Ambalavayal, Teh-Thrissur, Distt.-Wayanad (Kerala) Contact: 9447186158 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Alphonso 12 10000 Banglora 12 10000 Kalapadi 12 1000 Mulgoa 12 10000 Neelum 12 10000 Romani 12 5000	304 Regional Fruit Resaerch Station, Bahadurgarh Address: Bahadurgarh, Taluka:- Patiala, Distt- Patiala (Panjab) Contact: 1752381473 Rating: ** Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 15 1500 Dashehari 150 7500 Langra 30 25000
305 Regional Fruit Research Station, Vengurle Address: Associate Director of Research, Fruit Plant Nursery of RFRS, Vengurle of Dr. B.S.K.K.V Dapoli, District - Sindhudurg (Maharashtra) Contact: adrrfrsvengurle@yahoo.in Rating: **** Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Alphonso 300 50000 Kesar 300 30000 Ratna 150 6000 Sindhu 150 3000	306 Renuka Nursery Address: Village- Villava Shapur, Distt.- Bidar (Karnataka) Contact: 9986548021 Rating: ** Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Baneshan 150 25000 Dashehari 1000 20000 Mallika 100 25000
307 RFRS, Fruit Nursery Address: Pune City, District - Pune (Maharashtra) Contact: frganesh@dataone.in Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Kesar 100 25000	308 Rupak Nursery Address: Village-Nirvoypur (Bagh-Airchar), Distt.-Shipahijala (Tripura) Contact: 9436742336 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 350 150000 Mallika 20 15000
309 S. M. Arakeri Nursery Address: Village- Bandi, District- Koppal (Karnataka) Contact: 9448564753 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Baneshan 200 2500 Mallika 400 2500	310 Sahadeb Nursery Address: Village- Rampur, Patnagarh, Distt.- Bolangir (Odisha) Contact: 9937539056 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 30 7500 Banganapalli 20 5000 Dashehari 30 7500 Langra 30 7500 Neelum 30 7500 Totapuri 30 7500
311 Sai Krishik Gardens Address: Village- A K Kaval, Distt.- Tumkur (Karnataka) Contact: arravindra10@rediffmail.com/ 9448166487 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Kesar 15 45000 Mallika 160 40000 Totapuri 80 40000	312 Sai Nursery Address: Village & Post - Hajipur, District - Jagatsingpur (Odisha) Contact: 9438790455 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 40 7500 Dashehari 15 3000 Langra 5 1000
313 Sailabala Horticultural Nursery Address: Village- Gadia, Post - Mallickmunda, District - Subarnapur (Odisha) Contact: 9437330900 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 800 240000 Banganapalli 150 30000 Dashehari 300 90000 Totapuri 150 45000	314 Samalkota Fruit Crops Nusery Address: Village- Pedapuram, District - East Godavari (Andhra Pradesh) Contact: 884239291 Rating: ** Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Banganapalli 500 50000
315 Sambhab Horticulture Nursery Farm Address: Shri Pradip Kumar Mishra S/o Late Shri Achutananda Mishra, Village- Padhanpali, Taluka - Dhankauda, Distt.- Sambalpur (Odisha) Contact: Rating: ** Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 300 150000 Banganapalli 20 15000 Chausa 20 15000 Dashehari 20 15000 Gulab Khas 20 15000 Langra 20 15000 Mallika 150 75000 Ratna 20 15000 Sunder Langra 10 5000	316 Samir Farm and Nursery Address: Kusumben Anilbhai Vashi, Post - Ambheta, Taluka - Gandevi, District - Navsari (Gujarat) Contact: Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 100 5000 Banganapalli 50 3000 Baneshan 50 4000 Dashehari 100 4500 Kesar 1500 60000 Langra 50 5000 Neelum 50 1500 Rajapuri 150 5000 Totapuri 200 4500
317 Samrat Ashok Nursery Address: Village- Gagan, Post - Mall, Distt.- Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) Contact: 9793506677 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 20 2000 Dashehari 25 6000	318 Samrat Nursery Address: Village- Marbaiguda, P.O.- Laxmipur, Distt.- Koraput (Odisha) Contact: Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 23 3450
319 Sandhu Nursery and Seeds Address: Village-Sanjhot, Dhamandri, Distt.- Una (Himachal Pradesh) Contact: 9625590500 Rating: * Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Amrapali 30 4000 Dashehari 40 4000 Langra 25 3000 Mallika 30 4000	320 Sangar Farm & Nursery Address: Village- Pipri, Taluka - Mandvi, Distt.- Kutch (Gujarat) Contact: 9925603172 Rating: ** Mango Varieties Mother Plants Production Capacity Kesar 200 25000
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