Director of ICAR-Directorate of Cashew Research inauguates ‘Cashew Special’ production unit at Vitla

MANGALURU The Director of the Directorate of Cashew Research (DCR), under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Puttur, J. Dinakara Adiga, inaugurated ‘Cashew Special’, which is a micronutrient formulation for foliar application in cashew orchards, production unit of Bharat Agri Development Farmers’ Producer Company Ltd., a farmer producer organisation (FPO), at Vitla in Dakshina Kannada on Thursday. Earlier, ICAR-DCR had issued the FPO its licence to produce ‘Cashew Special’.

The micronutrient formulation was developed by a team of scientists led by Shamsudheen M, a former Principal Scientist (Soil Science) at the ICAR-DCR. The licence was issued under the Government of Karnataka’s Prime Minister’s Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana – Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied Sector Rejuvenation (PM RKVY-RAFTAAR) project titled “Development of model cashew villages for transforming farm livelihoods in Karnataka”. Speaking on the occasion, Mr.

Adiga explained the importance of the micronutrient formulation in increasing cashew yields.