::: LOK BHARTI - A Rural Revolution :::

Lok Bharti Nursery

It is the nursery section which turns usually non-productive and barren land-scape of Lok Bharti into beautified, productive and charming. Many types of decorative trees, flower-plants and fruit trees have made our premises as charming and beautiful as fairy land. The work of the nursery began with the arrival of vegetation worshiper Shri Ismailbhai Nagori.

Our Beauty - Spots : You find fruit trees, flower plants and flora in Lok Bharti premises, house gardens of teachers and kitchen gardens. The creepers and evergreen plants increase its beauty, to see the classes being conducted under the beautiful gul mohar trees is an everyday phenomenon at Lok Bharti.

Tree Planting : Different varieties of grapes were introduced here when water was available in plenty. The mango groves were of rare beauty. But they have perished due to water scarcity. But today the Sindari river side fallow – land has become beautiful with 5,000 trees grown under tree planting campaign being carried out every year.

A Live Laboratory : Nursery, in a way, is a live laboratory for our students. They are involved in all processes of nursery work. They get an opportunity to study 182 varieties of vegetation on the campus. They get training in preparing grafts of various types.

The students do all work of nursery such as preparing pots or bags with soil, growing and rearing the saplings with care.

Sapling Sale Center : Nursery has been a reliable center for the people of surrounding villages for getting flower plants and grafts. The students prepare grafts and saplings as a part of their practical work and also bring saplings of various fruit trees for sale to people at reasonable rates after adding certain expenses.

Self - Employment Trainee : The students are taught to prepare and preserve jam, jelly etc. This work trains them for their future self- employment. Many student earn by preparing grafts during vacation.

Experiments : The seeds of the best quality of vegetable and seeds are produced here of foundation stage through experiment and then such seeds are sold. The students offering horticulture as special subject learn these processes and prepare seeds too.

w	The P.L.R. variety of brinjal has given production worth Rs. 16 thousand to 18 thousand. The families of teachers and students use organic vegetables free from chemicals in their kitchens. Every year vegetables of eleven varieties were grown.
w	Use of hormones for making grafts helps growing of roots easily and in large quality.
w	The experiment of new graft in chickoo : This method of grafting used in mango trees is also applied for chickoo trees for their quick growth. Students also make such grafts. We are thinking to apply this method for ‘sitafal’
w	The experiment of tissue culture in banana plants : The ‘Basarai’ and ‘Shrimati’ varieties of banana plants brought from Hyderabad will be given to interested farmers after preparing their “Mother Plant”.
w	Green Date : 50 varieties of green date brought from Kutch. We try to increase its yield by the process of impregnation.
w	The experiment of trench instead rupees of water plots for mango trees is being tried for irrigation. They are watered though the trench. The result of the experiments are being checked.

The Sale of Grafts :
Four thousand grafts of chickoo. lemon, creepers and various flower plants are prepared by the students of third year as past of their productive work. Every year 3,000 grafts of fruits trees and 5,000 grafts of flower plants are sold.

Agroshed Net House :
Two Agroshed Net house with 50' x 20' x 12 size are established for growing seasonal crops. Each Net house is facilitated with drip system and foggers. Seeding of various vegetable crops can be raised in Net House. It is also uselful in process of hardening Nursery Plants.

Drip Irrigation System :
Latest drip irriagtion system is established in vegetable crop plot. Due to drip irrigation system production of vegetable have been incresed more than double.