HAU develops new hybrid wheat, bajra and oil seeds.

By Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, JAN 29

 The scientists of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar have developed five new hybrid varieties of wheat, Bajra and oil seeds.

        While stating this today, a spokesman of the University said that these varieties included HHB-234 of Bajra, WH 1105 and WHD 948 of wheat, RH 0479 of mustard and HT 9713/HT2 of Sesame. He said that these varieties have been released and notified by the Central Variety Release and Notification Committee (CVRC) for cultivation.

                     He said that wheat variety WH 1105 is a bread wheat variety which has been released and notified for cultivation under timely sown irrigated conditions in the Northern Western Plain Zone (NWPZ) of the country comprising  Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and foot-hills of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.  In national trials, WH 1105 gave an average yield of 52.5 quintals per hectare and potential yield of 71.6 quintals per hectare. He said that it out yielded the popular wheat varieties namely PBW-343, PBW-17, PBW 550 and HD 2967 by a margin of 8.69, 1.54, 5.62 and 0.95 per cent, respectively.  It matures in 144 days.  It also possessed high degree of resistance to yellow and brown rusts, flag smut, leaf blight and powdery mildew diseases.  He said that it has 12.5 per cent protein content with better chapatti making score and high sedimentation value of 53ml.   He said that another   wheat variety, WHD 948 is a drum wheat variety which has been released and notified for cultivation in the Peninsular Zone consisting of Maharashtra and Karnataka, the major durum wheat growing states. 

        He said that Mustard variety RH 0749 has been released and notified for cultivation under timely sown and irrigated conditions in Zone II comprising of Haryana, Punjab, Jammu Kashmir, Delhi and Western Rajasthan. He said  that this variety possessed  15 per cent yield advantage over the existing high yielding varieties owing to long and thick siliquae having more number of seeds per siliqua.  This variety gave an average yield of 26.28 quintals per hectare in about 146 to 148 days.  The seeds of this variety are bold and have 39 to 40 per cent oil content.

                     He said that hybrid HHB 234 of Bajra has been notified for release and cultivation in A1 Zone of the country which comprise Haryana, Rajasthan and other parts of the country receiving rain fall less than 400mm per annum. This hybrid has been recommended specially for rain fed conditions of the country.  This hybrid has candle shaped ear heads and possesses high yield potential under rain fed conditions and it could give higher yield of 45 quintals per hectare under normal conditions.  This hybrid is highly resistant to downy mildew disease and matures in 68 to 70 days.

                     He said sesame variety HT2 possessed high yield potential with 15 to 25 per cent yield superiority over the check varieties and illustrated multiple resistances against leaf curl virus and phyllody diseases.  White seeds dark green leaves and long hairy capsules are other enumerating characteristics of this variety, he added.

                      He said that these varieties would definitely play a pivotal role in improving the livelihood and economic well being of the farmers apart from enhancing the overall productivity.