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MACS 6478
- New wheat variety helps farmers in a Karanjkhop Village in Koregaon (Satara) in Maharashtra double their yield
- The newly developed common wheat or bread wheat, also called high yielding Aestivum, matures in 110 days and is resistant to most races of leaf and stem rust
- The chapati from the flour of this wheat also scores high on quality.
- This wheat variety is developed by Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), an autonomous institute of the Government of India
- The farmers of the village in Koregaon tehsil of Satara district in Maharashtra are now getting a yield of 45-60 quintal per hectare with the new variety as against earlier average yield ranging 25-30 quintal per hectare when they cultivated Lok 1, HD 2189 and other old varieties.
Q) Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune is an autonomous institute works under which ministry?
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry of Rural Development
- Ministry of Farmers Welfare
- Ministry of Science and Technology
- HYV means High Yielding Variety.
- This basically refers to hybrids or cultivars which are purposefully developed for high Yielding.
- The high yield crops give better response to fertilizers
- Most of the high yield crops are dwarf and hence, their plants are stronger and can withstand strong winds
- This motto of developing HYV started in the 1965 famine which also leads to green revolution to feed the population of India.
High Yield Crops- Disadvantages
- They require more water
- They require more fertilizers as compared to the normal varieties of crops
- They require frequent weeding
- Continuous use of pesticides
- Sometimesn the high yield crops may be more susceptible to diseases
- The amber coloured medium sized grain contains
- 14% protein
- 1 ppm zinc
- 8 ppm iron
- (higher than other cultivated varieties)’
- Maharashtra State seed agency for seed multiplication, ‘Mahabeej’ is carrying out certified seed production of MACS 6478 for use by farmers.
Other crops in News
- Earlier in 2020, Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune, developed a biofortified durum wheat variety MACS 4028.
- Recently, farmers from Golaghat district in Assam cultivated new flood resistant paddy varieties to shift from the traditional ones. The varieties called Ranjit Sub1, Swarna Sub1 and Bahadur Sub1
- Other crops in News – Pokkali variety of rice
- Farmers in West Bengal started growing pokkali variety of rice as severe seawater incursion happened into paddy fields in the Sundarbans (owing to Cyclone Amphan). Vyttila-11 varieties of pokkali seedlings were brought from Kerala
- The pokkali variety of rice is known for its saltwater resistance and is grown in Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Thrissur districts of Kerala.
- The University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (UAHS) of Shivamogga developed a new red variety of paddy named Sahyadri Megha (High Protein)
- The ‘Jyothi’ variety in Karnataka became vulnerable to blast disease and other infestations. There was a surge in demand by consumers in urban areas for red rice which is rich in fibre and protein. The red variety is due to anthocyanins.
- Sahyadri Megha is a red variety of paddy resistant to blast disease
- It was developed under the hybridization breeding method by cross-breeding ‘Jyothi’ variety with ‘Akkalu’
- Arsenic-resistant rice cultivated in West Bengal
- The new rice variety, Muktoshri — also called IET 21845 —, was developed jointly by the Rice Research Station at Chinsurah, West Bengal’s Agriculture Department and National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow
- Karan Vandana & Karan Narendra wheat varieties were released recently for Haryana, Punjab, J&K, eastern UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam and West Bengal.
- Karan Vandana variety matures in 120 days after sowing & has the potential of around 80 quintals per hectare. It has high iron content (43.1 ppm) in the grains.
- Karan Narendra has a potential yield of 82.1 quintal per hectare. It matures in 143 days
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