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A New Nutmeg Variety

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Category	Agro-biodiversity and Plant Breeding,New Variety,Improvement over old,Budding
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Scout	HBN
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Details of Innovation	The contributor, Tom Antony has been experimenting with patch-budding in nutmeg trees.Usually 100-120 nutmegs are required to weigh one kilogram, as are 800-1000 mace. But his budded variety requires 80-100 nutmegs to weigh one kilogram, and 300 to 350 mace nutmegs of the budded variety to weigh the same. One nutmeg weighs 8 to10 gm. and one mace weighs 2.5-3.5 gm. A 15 year-old tree yields 3500 to 5000 nutmegs a year. In the ordinary nutmeg, sex can be determined only after flowering, which usually takes 6 to 8 years. This problem does not arise in the budded variety as it yields within 4 years. Since the stock is a forest variety, the budded variety has deep roots and does not fall down in windy seasons. This high-yielding variety of budded nutmeg would be ideal for farmers, especially when the prices of many agricultural and cash crops have fallen.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Tom . C. Antony
City / District	Kottayam
KVK District	KVK Kottayam, Kumarakom North P.O, Kottayam, Kerala- 686566
Address	Kottayam ,Kerala
Languages Spoken	Malayalam
Vocation	Farming
State	Kerala
PIN Code	686001

PAS_1	"Nutmeg."https://vikaspedia.igriculture/crop-production/package-of-practices/spices/nutmeg
PAS_2	"Nutmeg"http://www.celkau.in/crops/spices/Nutmeg/nutmeg.aspx
Agro Ecological Zone	Western Ghats And Coastal Plain, Hot Humid region (19.2),Western Ghats And Coastal Plain, Hot Humid region (19.2),Southern Zone(KE 2)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0020000000067
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1124
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN