pune the icarcentral citrus research institute nagpur recently organized the national workshop on production of diseasefree citrus planting materials on ppp modenitin gadkari union minister of road transport and highways who was present at the workshop urged the institute to conduct a performance audit of licensed nursery owners in order to grant them ratings and certificates of standard he said that scientists should standardise quality parameters for exporting citrus fruits and carry out needbased research in collaboration with developed countriesdr trilochan mohapatra secretary dare and dg icar said there was a need to leverage skill development programmes and government schemes to train private nursery owners for developing diseasefree planting material using icarccris technologydr mohapatra emphasized on certifying such nurseries icarccris efforts in using subsurface drip irrigation system aimed at improving water use efficiency and reducing use of chemical fertilizers was also part of the discussions