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Owing to the fact that the world´s population increases, demand for horticultural products is great. New insights and techniques are required in order to achieve sufficient and sustainable yields to meet global food demand and prevent world hunger. Therefore, Research in this field is strongly oriented towards searching and testing the effectiveness and efficiency of new products. Biostimulants are defined as materials, other than fertilizers, that promote plant growth when applied in small quantities and are also referred to as metabolic enhancers. Forchlorfenuron, a synthetic cytokinin with strong growth regulation activities has been found very effective in enhancing fruit growth by stimulating cell division and cell elongation.NATCA is a derivative of organic amino acid, which helps to develop fruits to its optimum level of size, shape, quality and taste.A low-moderate chilling New Castle cultivar of apricot ripens towards the third week of May when no other fruit is available and hence fetches higher prices in the market.The effect of CPPU and NATCA is remarkable while applied in pink bud and petal fall stage.

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Hota, Debashish
He has completed his under graduation from OUAT, Bhubaneswar; Post graduation from DR YSPUH&F, Solan; and PhD from IGKV, Raipur. His PhD research was being carried out in CCRI,Nagpur. He has qualified ICAR-JRF, ICAR-SRF, ICAR-NET. He has 10 paper in national and international journal, 8 popular article, 2 book chapters, 6 abstract.

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