Groundnut

Groundnut - Healthy Oil with High Oleic Acid

Girnar 4

  • Rich in oleic acid (78.5 % in oil) in comparison to 45-52% in popular varieties
  • Oil content: 53.0 %
  • Protein content: 27 %
  • Pod yield: 32.2 q/ha
  • Maturity: 112 days
  • Recommended forKharif season in Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
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Girnar 5

  • Rich in oleic acid (78.4 % in oil) in comparison to 45-52% in popular varieties
  • Oil content: 53.0 %
  • Protein content: 27 %
  • Pod yield: 32.2 q/ha
  • Maturity: 112 days
  • Adaptation: Kharif season in Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh

 

India Marching Towards Self-Sufficiency in Pulses

Mungbean ‘Virat’- Diversifying Indian Agriculture

  • Virat (IPM 205-7), the world’s first extra early synchronous variety of mungbean matures in 52-55 days, is amenable to a single harvest.
  • With a share of >25% in the national breeder seed indent with an expected cultivated area of >3 lakh ha.
  • Grown in Indo-Gangetic plains, canal command areas of Central India and new delta area of southern peninsula thus diversifying rice-wheat system of North and Rice-rice system of southern India
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PusaArhar 16: A Short Duration Determinate Type Varieties

  • PADT 16 is having compact semi-erect plant type which is suitable for high density planting and harvesting by combine.
  • Its extra early maturity allows growing of mustard/wheat/potato after its harvest.
  • Due to its semi-dwarf stature spraying is easy and efficient with knapsack sprayer.
  • Average yield: 20 q/ha
  • Maturity: 120 days

IPL 220 - Biofortified Lentil Variety

  • Rich in iron (65.0 ppm) in comparison to 45.0-50.0 ppm in popular varieties
  • Grain yield: 13.0 q/ha
  • Maturity: 100 days
  • Medium seed with orange cotyledon
  • Suitable for rainfed condition
  • Adaptation: Rabi season in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
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Pusa Chickpea 10216

  • Country’s first drought tolerant MAS-derived chickpea variety suitable for rainfed as well as irrigated conditions
  • It has an excellent grain color, size and shape. Its average 100-seed weight is 22.2 g with grain protein content of 22.6 per cent.
  • It is moderately resistant to Fusarium wilt , dry root rot and stunt.
  • Medium seed with orange cotyledon
  • It is moderately resistant to pod borer.
  • It is an early flowering and early maturing variety. It flowers in about 50-55 days .
  • Average grain yield: 14.8 q/ha and (under drought stress condition) .
  • Maturity: 106 days
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Desi Chickpea ‘IPC 2005-62’ with High Protein Content

  • A late sown variety of chickpea with high protein content (26%)
  • Average yield: 1018 kg/ha

JRO 524 of Jute: Strengthening Jute Industry in India and Bangladesh

  • Annually, 3500-4000 tons seed of JRO 524 is exported to Bangladesh, costing Rs. 50-60 crores.
  • JRO 524 and JRO 204 occupy more than 70 percent of the jute area of the country.
  • Whole-genome sequencing of Corchorus olitorious cv. JRO-524 (Navin) with a draft genome of 377.3 Mbp, paving the way to develop innovative varieties of jute using gene and molecular marker technology.

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