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Khalid Bin Jalal succeeds in his
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more grapes are sour. Sweet grapes are now being cultivated in Natore.
Khalid-Bin-Jalal alias Bachchu has changed the idea that sweet grapes are not
possible to grow in the soil and climate conditions of the country. Khalid,
after a lot of research, has grown sweet grapes in his garden at Kanaikhali in
Natore town and disseminated the technology to the farmers. Khalid
started grape research and cultivation about 12 years ago. He studied 200 kinds
of grape which included his self-discovered high yielding variety KN-2000,
KN-2001 and FKJN-2002. He first produced the sweet grapes in 1995. He did all
these without any patronage of the government. He found out why the grapes are
sour in our soil. To unveil the mystery of sourness he had to study the
characteristics of various grape species and their varieties from the world
around. Khalid
said the country has acute scarcity of superior quality grape-cuttings, which
are very essential for extension of grape cultivation. He further said grape
cultivation is different from that of other crops and our farmers have little
experience in this regard. Khalid
has written two books and many articles on grape cultivation in our country. He
said grape is a climacteric fruit. It will ripen on the tree. He said that the particular genetic behaviour of a plant
is mainly responsible for its sourness or sweetness. For example, he explained,
a scion of a sweet fruit variety grafted with a branch of sour plant bears
sweet fruit and on the other hand the scion of sour fruit variety grafted with
a branch of sweet plant bears sour fruit. This may be observed with mango and
many other fruits. The
grape berry has various stages of growth. Its initial swelling stage is called
ripening stage but it is not the ripe stage. The ripe stage of grape berry
begins after the end of ripening stage. Within this ripening stage the grape
berry remains sour. In
the initial stage the percentage of malic acid and the fructose remain equal
in quantity. During the ripening stage the colour of the grape berry changes
and in the ripe stage the pulp turns sweet. |
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