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IHT at Glance

With shrinking land and scarce natural resources, the path ahead for the Indian horticulture should be to diversify into hi-tech horticulture to improve the productivity and quality. Institute of Horticulture Technology established in 2009 serve as a knowledge bank and has evolved as a very important educational centre for horticultural crops.

Collaboration and Recognition: The Institute has collaboration with number of National Institutes and Universities for undertaking Research and Development projects and undertaking Educational Courses in Horticulture. The Extension Department of the Institute provides Capacity Building programmes to extension officials, farmers, future horticulture managers, supervisors and entrepreneurs.

IHT in house R&D is recognised as SIRO -Scientific and Research Organization by Department of science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. The institute is recognised for Hi Tech Horticultural Trainings by Department of Horticulture and Food Processing, U.P Government. The comprehensive educational programmes of the institute cater to the needs and demands of horticulture industry involved in production, import, exports and distribution or production of horticulture plants- vegetables, flowers, fruits, seeds.

The Institute has been undertaking R&D projects sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.     The Institute has collaboration with number of National Institutes and Universities for partnership and collaborative projects in various states of India.

For capacity building programs IHT conducts a number of short term training courses on various aspects of horticulture – majorly under the department heads of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, Nursery, Pest Management, Micro-irrigation and Hydroponics. The On-Site’ extension programmes also conducted in arrangement with local institutions/KVK/PRI across the country at block/district/state levels.

Dr K. L Chadha, Padma Shri awardee and a renowned horticulture scientist of international repute chairs the Advisory Committee which guides the institute’s functioning. Institute of Horticulture Technology has been empanelled by the Government of India and recognized by renowned agricultural universities for commercial projects, capacity building and providing hands on training in Hi-Tech Horticulture.

Faculty and Infrastructure

Techno Savvy Faculty: IHT has a well-qualified in house and guest national and international faculty in different disciplines of horticulture namely Fruits, Vegetables, Floriculture, Biotechnology, Plant Protection and Greenhouse Technology. The faculty is well versed with the commercial application of the technologies for quality and profitable production of horticulture crops.

Infrastructure: The institute serves as a knowledge bank for Hi-tech Horticulture and has a world-class infrastructure for conducting programmes in Hi-Tech horticulture technologies at Greater Noida. This includes a series of greenhouses from simple walk-in-tunnels to fully automated, computerized Climate Control Greenhouses for cultivation of vegetables, flowers and production of quality nurseries and planting material of horticultural crops. The computerized fertigation and micro-irrigation systems are fully operational at the institute to facilitate precision farming. Hi-Tech horticulture production system at the institute is further supplemented with open cultivation area with demonstrations on high density plantations and commercial vegetable & flower cultivation.

IHT Guwahati, Assam – Centre

The institute has established another campus in Mandira, Kamrup, Assam about 60 km from Guwahati Airport in order to undertake Research & Development projects for the region and provide capacity building training of farmers and entrepreneurs of North-Eastern states. The campus has 150-acre cultivable land with different protected structures for soilless nursery production of vegetables and aromatic plants, orchid cultivation etc. The Centre has fruit, aromatic plant blocks where various R&D projects are undertaken. Showcasing of various technologies for cultivation of Vegetables, Fruits, Medicinal and Aromatic plants for farmers training are undertaken at periodical intervals. For capacity building programmes and partnership projects the campus focuses on the priority areas like orchids, protected cultivation and promotion of innovative technologies for crops of local importance.

Experience

The institute has undertaken number of Research and Development projects in collaboration with various National Institutes and Universities in north eastern states of India. Besides conducted courses for trainees from different states/UTs of India – Assam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and abroad – mainly Tunisia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Sudan, Tajikistan, Palestine, Vietnam, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Bahrain, amongst others in the last ten years.

Events for Interaction of Experts with Policy Planners and Trainees: IHT conducts yearly events such as HORTIINDIA, Farmers Day, Open Field Demonstrations, Campaigns, Exhibitions and Advisory services.

In these events innovative technologies are demonstrated to the visitors and other horticulture functionaries to empower them with the latest techniques used in hi-tech Horticulture and they were given opportunities to have hands-on all these hi-tech practices. The visiting faculty of IHT from Israel, Netherlands and China also share their experiences with the participants. Fruitful sessions are organized for interactive lectures by eminent scientist and industrialist for the benefit of farmers and others.