Horticultural Biodiversity in Santhai Parganas

Santhal Pargana region in Bihar is characterized by tribal community and natural forests. The area receives medium high rainfall (1200–1600) mm/annum) distributed between the month of June of September with mild temperature (30°–36"C) which favours growth of a number of horticultural crops of major and minor importance. Most of these crops are cross pollinated and show natural regencration leading to considerable variability accumulation in many fruits. The identification and collection of economically important genotypes of jackfruit, custard apple, jamun, tamarind, bael in this season was carried out. Biodiversity areas and collection routcs are enumerated. A number of promising collections for various traits in different fruit crops are described.