Name : Mr. Himanshu Sekhar Sahoo
District & State : Rayagada, Orissa
Category : Agricultural (General)
Award : Consolation
Award Function : 1st National Grassroots Innovation Awards
Award Year : 2001
Innovation Description
Mr. Sahoo has done his Masters in Agriculture and is a Jr. Hort. Officer at O.T.D.P. Kashipur.
Grafting of brinjals: it requires a grafting knife, polythene strips, Bhijri brinjal mother plant (one to six months old) and scions of improved or other varieties of brinjal. By taking scion from the hybrid variety, grafting can be done successfully in 15 days. No fertilisers but few insecticides are necessary.
http://nif.org.in/innovation/Imparting_disease_resistance_through_grafting_in_-brinjal/130