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January 23rd, 2016, 11:06 AM
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Rice varieties released by ANGRAU
Hello sir I want to know about the new rice varieties released by ANGRAU so please provide me information about the same. The Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) has developed 19 new crop varieties including that of rice, redgram, groundnut and sugarcane. About the new varieties of rice The new crop types include six rice varieties, three groundnut, three sugarcane, two cotton, redgram, field bean, castor (hybrid), safflower and jatropha. The university has developed 371 crop varieties including hybrids in the last four decades. It also has to its credit of developing 25 per cent of rice varieties presently cultivated across India. Besides these, technologies developed by ANGRAU are used by 85 per cent of farming community in Andhra Pradesh The university was working on developing new varieties which are resistant to rising temperature. This variety is becoming very popular due to good cooking quality, aroma and high yield potential. Similarly, the other five rice varieties have features of high yield and are suitable for sowing in different regions of Andhra Pradesh. The redgram ‘TRG 22’ has a high yield potential and is suitable as sole crop in light shallow soils. The field bean ‘TFB 5’ is identified to cultivate as a remunerative intercrop as well as contingent crop under delayed monsoon conditions in southern and scarce rainfall zones of the State The three new sugarcane varieties have features of early maturity and are suitable for irrigated and water logged conditions. Last edited by Neelurk; February 24th, 2020 at 01:26 PM. |
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