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Departments Vermicompost unit 0.06
Total 2.05
Fruit orchard 15.00
Mini orchard 3.00
Floriculture 0.62
Vegetable crops, spices and aromatic crops 6.07
10 Horticulture 14.80 Polyhouse and mist chamber 0.85
Medicinal plant garden 1.12
Botanical garden 5.00
Green net house 0.25
Total 31.91
Livestock, poultry, goat, piggery units, 5.31
veterinary office and clinic
Livestock and
11 4.94 Biogas unit (Proposed) 0.59
Poultry
Agro-ecological park (Proposed) 1.00
Total 6.90
Lake 12.64
Woodys 5.85
12 Miscellaneous -
Landscaping and gardens 5.23
Total 23.49
Grand Total 49.32 Grand Total 104.65

Description of Instructional Units used in Teaching

i) Fruit Orchard and Mini Orchard
Fruit orchard is established in an area of 10 acres according to the local soil and climatic

conditions. It has totally 20 different fruit crops such as sapota, west Indian cherry, star

gooseberry, bael, pomegranate, guava, ber, fig, annona, amla, wood apple, manila tamarind, star
fruit, tamarind, date palm. The mini orchard was established in VIT campus premises to carryout

different experiments as part of the horticultural curriculum. Totally 33 fruit crops were
assembled in an area of 3.0 acres at mini orchard. VIT Agri Farm is also having a senile mango

orchard (15 acres) to demonstrate the rejuvenation pruning and different methods of grafting to
the students and farmers.

ii) Agro Meteorological Observatory

The observatory is located in the Northeastern zone of Tamil Nadu at 12°57'57.8''N latitude and

79°11'07.3''E longitude with an altitude of 194 m above MSL. Institute has both manual
(Principal Observatory) as well automatic weather stations, where physical elements (daily

temperature, rainfall, sunshine, humidity, wind velocity, soil temperature, evaporation, etc.) and

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