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Botanical Excursion Tour to Lonavala

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10/02/2024: The Botanical educational visit to Lonavala, organized by Department of Botany, was designed to provide students with an immersive learning experience in the diverse flora of the region. Lonavala, with its rich biodiversity and unique plant species, served as an excellent destination for this specialized excursion. The primary goal of the visit was to deepen students' understanding of plant life, ecosystems, and environmental conservation. Lonavala's varied landscapes, from lush green valleys to rocky terrains, offered an ideal setting for studying a wide range of plant species, including endemic and medicinal plants. The visit commenced with a trek, providing students with an opportunity to observe and identify various plant species in their natural habitat. Faculty members were accompanied the group, sharing insights into the unique adaptations of plants to different ecological niches. The educational tour included a visit to the Lonavala Botanical Garden...
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Visit to A-One Biotech (Plant Tissue Culture & Horticulture Plant), Talegaon, Pune.

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  27/09/2023: A-One Biotech (Plant Tissue Culture & Horticulture Plant) is a distributer of micropropagated plants, based in MIDC, Talegaon, Pune. The organization was established in 2005 by Mr. Dilip Jadhav , a post graduate in Botany. He has worked hard to make successful tie-ups with several renowned companies such as Reliance Group, Government Projects such as beautification of Nasik Highway and Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai and many more. Several ornamental plants are propagated through tissue culture and sold on a large scale. Department of Botany, AKI’s Poona College, arranged a visit to this Horticulture Plant, with S.Y. B.Sc. Botany students on 27 th September, 2023 . Mr. Shelke, the manager received us in his usual cordial way. He gave us brief insights into the aims and objectives of A-One Biotech and its functional outgrowth in the past few years as a leading horticulture industry. He took students around the entire Polyhouse while ex...
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Cultivation of medicinal plants: Moringa

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07/10/2023: T he initiative of Department of Botany, AKI’s Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce, “Project Moringa” was further pursued by transplanting saplings in soil. Students and staff visited the land at Bopgaon with the seedlings that had grown successfully in seedling trays. Students, under the supervision of coordinators Dr. Aafreen A. Ahmed and Dr. Rafik Shaikh prepared beds and laid pipelines for drip irrigation. This was a tedious process, but students carried out work efficiently! After a short break, students transplanted sap lings in beds at adequate distance so that the plants establish well in soil in the coming days. With assistance of the locals, students could complete their work in time and make arrangements for drip irrigation. In all,  16 students  volunteered to work on field for cultivation of  Moringa  saplings on land.     
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Report on setting up of Medicinal garden by TYBSC Botany student.

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  Activity Incharge :  Dr. Shafikh Shaikh Staff Accompanied : Miss Nabila Shaikh                                      No of Beneficiaries : 16 Date : 16/06/2021                     Time : 11.00am              Day : Wednesday     Department of Botany organized an activity to set up college medicinal garden. This activity was conducted  with the help of T.Y.B.Sc Botany students in presence of Principal Dr. Aftab Anwar Shaikh. Students were provided with garden equipment to carry out the plantation process. Two students adopted single plant for plantation and further care. The objective was to make stu...
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Celebration of International Tea Day

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Date: 21/05/2020 Objective : To promote and foster collective actions, to implement activities in favour of sustainable production and consumption of tea and raise awareness of its importance in fighting hunger and poverty.             21 st May, 2020: Tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world, after water. With time, it has become a very important cash crop the world over. There was a dire need to plan and implement actions to secure wages of workers at tea plantations, their health and security, sustainable methods of tea production, etc. Thus, the United Nations, on recommendations of the tea growing countries of the world, especially India, declared 21 st of May as International Tea Day.            Department of Botany, Y & M AKI’s Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce, celebrated this day via the digital platform ZOOM, a step taken in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic on 21 st May, 2020....
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