“Hill Millet Research Work, NAU, WAGHAI and Agricultural Department, Dangs” – Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari & Collectors Office, Ahwa, Dang
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Advanced Millet Production
Nomination
- Need for early maturing finger millet and little millet varieties suitable for rice transplanting.
- Lack of high grain and fodder yielding pest and disease-resistant varieties of small millets.
- Problems faced in collecting, evaluating, and utilizing local indigenous and exotic germplasm of small millets in the breeding programme.
- To develop improved production technology, including a cropping system, and ensure nutritional quality management in newly released varieties
Achievements
- Released Gujarat Nagli-8, an early maturing > 100 days variety in Finger millet allowing transplanting.
- Improved practices for millets like nursery raising, green manuring, planting time, manure and fertilizer management
- Evolved water management, weed management, cropping pattern, and bio-fertilizer application techniques
- Developed techniques involving the management of disease and insect pests prevailing in tribal and hilly regions.
SKOCH Award Nominee
Category: Agriculture – Centre
Sub-Category: secAgriculture – Centre
Project: “Hill Millet Research Work, NAU, WAGHAI and Agricultural Department, Dangs”
Start Date: 2015-01-01
Organisation: Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari & Collectors Office, Ahwa, Dang
Respondent: Dr Harshal Eknath Patil, Research Scientist
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Level: Executive Plus
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For more information, please contact:
Dr Harshal Eknath Patil, Research Scientist at hmrs@nau.in
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