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A new variety of Ber (Zizyphus jujube )- Chandrala Ber

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Category	Agro-biodiversity and Plant Breeding,New Variety,Improvement over old,Others
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Scout	HBN
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Details of Innovation	In 1987, while walking through his fields, he observed that the trees that were closer to the water canal and had a lot of honeybees buzzing around them. Later, he also found that compared to other trees, the number of fruits was much more on these trees, though their fruit was smaller. He observed this for a couple of seasons and thereafter planted one of the high-bearing trees in between four trees of the old variety. The logic was that cross-pollination between them would improve fruit-quality. After few years of trials, he was satisfied with the results. Then, he decided to graft the new variety on to an old one to verify the results. The process of trials went on till 1996. Though the fruits are smaller than the umran variety of ber, the taste of the new one is unique, being both sweet and sour. The other characteristic of the new variety is that it is more or less uniform in size. This is an advantage if one decides to export them.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Dashrathbhai Patel
City / District	Gandhinagar
KVK District	Krushi Vigyan Kendra, Gujarat Vidyapeeth Randheja,Ta. Gandhinagar
Address	Gandhinagar ,Gujarat
Languages Spoken	Gujarati
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	382320

PAS_1	"CAZRI Ber 2018:New early variety of ber."https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342832490_CAZRI_Ber_2018New_early_variety_of_ber
PAS_2	"Growing Ber (Ziziphus ma'uritiana Lam) for Sustainable Income and Employment in Arid and Semi Arid Regions ."http://www.cazri.res.in/publications/KrishiKosh/112-(GROWING%20BER).pdf
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Northern Plain (And Central Highlands) Including Aravallis, Hot Semi-Arid Eco- Region(4.2), Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and Hills Region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Gujarat Zone (GJ-4)
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Practice ID	KNW0020000000125
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1143
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN