About HRC

Horticulture Research Centre (HRC), Patharchatta was created in 1968 under Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. It is situated at 29.5 0 North latitude and 79 . 3 0 East longitude. The altitude of the place is 243.84 meters above the mean sea level. The climate of this place is humid sub- tropics with maximum temperature ranging from 31.5 0 C to 41.1 0 C in summer and minimum temperature varying from 2.0 0 C to 10.0 0 C in winter. Monsoon occurs from third week of June to the middle of September. Frost may be expected from last week of December to the first week of February. The soil type is clay loam having about 7.5 pH. Horticulture Research Centre is spread in an area of about 176 hectare, exclusively for research and commercial aspects of fruits. The centre is enriched with a wide wealth of fruit crops like, mango, guava, litchi, citrus, papaya, peach, plum, pear, aonla, ber, bael, Karonda, custard apple, sapota, jackfruit, jamun, Banana etc. The centre has its own state of the art fruit nursery to nourish its own as well as of the farmers requirement by providing authentic plant material of fruit crops.

Mission: To enhance productivity of fruit crops on sustainable basis.