Principal Scientist (Horticulture)

Born on 13th April, 1960 at Solapur in Maharashtra, Dr. Ambadas Dattatraya Huchche graduated in agriculture from College of Agriculture, Nagpur in 1981, obtained M. Sc. in horticulture from Post Graduate Institute, Akola under Dr. Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola) in 1983 and Ph. D. (Hort.) from Chaudhari Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar in 1999. He joined Agriculture Research Service of ICAR on 16th December, 1986 at IIHR, Bangalore and was later transferred as one of the founder Scientists to the newly instituted National Research Centre for Citrus at Nagpur. Since then he has dedicated himself to Citrus research and the cause of citrus orchardists.

Dr. A. D. Huchche’s areas of research include citrus flowering, fruit set, fruit retention, control of fruit drop, fruit size, crop regulation, use of growth regulators, nutrient and weed management and soil and water conservation. He is actively involved in transfer of technology programmes of the Centre and organized ten training programmes under Trainers’ Training Centre at NRCC, Nagpur. Some of the technologies at his credit include leaf sampling technique, nutrient requirements of Nagpur mandarin and acid lime, control of pre- and post-harvest fruit drop in citrus, crop regulation in Nagpur mandarin and acid lime, fruit size control, and weed management. Dr. Huchche has a total of 116 publications to his credit including 29 research papers, 59 papers presented in seminar and symposia, 8 book chapters, two manuals, 4 popular articles, two technical bulletins, four extension bulletins, two extension folders one book and has delivered six radio talks on different topics of citriculture.