The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) Dharwad has introduced 15 new varieties of crops for the farming community. UAS Vice-Chancellor R R Hanchinal said here on Tuesday that the researchers and experts of the varsity were introducing the new varieties of crops for the betterment of the farming sector and to help the farmers get high yield.

Considering that North Karnataka region has rich potential for vegetables and horticulture crops the UAS has released two new varieties of tomatoes named DMT-1 and DMT-5. The duration of these crops is 120 days and the new breed has the capacity to yield 28 tonne per hectare. This is a bushy variety with bacterial wilt resistant and the fruits are good for fresh market. Similarly, a new variety of coccinia named DRC-2 has also been released. It has capacity of yielding 67 tonne per hectare and is a long duration crop.

The scientists after years of research have developed new variety of cotton breed named DHH-263 which has a duration of 165 days and has a yielding capacity of 26 quintals per hectare. This is a superior medium staple hybrid cotton with high lint yielding ability.

A new variety of hybrid maize GH-0727 having the duration of 120 days and a capacity of getting 74 quaintal per hectare has also been released. This is resistant to turcicum leaf blight and rust, high yielding and high starch containing variety, he added.

To help the black gram growers, new variety breed DBGV-05 with a duration of 82 days and a yielding capacity of 15 quintal per hectare has been introduced.

Apart from this, the UAS has also released new variety of Cowpea named DCS-1-47, green gram DGGV-2, Niger named DNS-4, Sesame named SSD-5, two new varieties of ground nut G-2-52 and GPBD-5 with a yielding capacity of 35 quintal per hectare and soya JS 03-05 and DSB-21

Hanchinal stated that the biggest challenge before the country is to provide nutritional food to the ever growing domestic market. Hence, emphasis has been given to generate high yielding crops.

source: http://www.Business-Standard.com / Home> Economy & Policy> by BS Reporter / Chennai-Dharwad / June 21st, 2012