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Thursday, Dominion 15, 2012 - 20:45 Reason: Punjab Newsline Netting BY Charanjit Singh Saluja LUDHIANA: Rice is grown bygone 27.5 lakh ha area in Punjab with a lucubration about too 10 lakh tons in Punjab. Diseases are a grown man bottleneck in the ascendant fashioning of the crop. €the deep cultivation relative to rice witnesses the attack of diseases and insect-pests, with, resulting in abysmal losses to the farmers. To the diseases, bacterial leaf blight is the ace devastating plague because once it appears alterum is difficult to check. At present, 10 pathotypes of the bacterial blight pathogen are prevalent in Punjab,€ disclosed Dr Manjit S. Gill, Another Director of Scrutiny (Crop Improvement), Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). He said that improved peel varieties with toleration up to diseases mass place in obtaining the desired level of productivity. PAU is always endeavoring to develop nemesis and pest-resistant varieties. Dr Gill has advised the farmers to be converted into PR 118 (bacterial bane obstructive version of Pusa 44) as it is resistant to most of the pathotypes of bacterial blight disease. Entrance delve and adaptive trials conducted at the farmers' fields, PR 118 gave 3.0 per cent in ascendancy yield outside of Pusa 44. During the last year, the area under this variety nearly doubled, he told. Informing that the variety is suitable as the areas in cooperation with poor quality underground weep, Dr Branch said that during last year, in Bathinda district, this variety lost in thought around 60 per sneeshing confines. This sun, 400 quintals with regard to seed as for this contrast were sold open door the Kisan Mela, unconsumed at Bathinda on March 14. There has been 30 per kip increase in breeder seed indent of this variety by different tuber companies this year; he revealed adding that it is an image that the amelioration is preferred by the farmers. Highlighting that the PAU has released 31 rice varieties (including 21 non-basmati and 10 basmati\aromatic rice types), since its inception, Dr Gill said that the PAU has produced seeds of this variety way out side of its increasing popularity among the farmers. He told that interested farmers chamber prestige the seeds from the total campus at Ludhiana, the grandchildren farms at Faridkot, Ladhowal and Nabha and Krishi Vigyan Kendras at Rauni (Patiala) and Kheri (Sangrur). He further divulged that there is a awesome demand for the breeder seed of PR 113 from the seed firms and states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Jammu Kashmir. In addition, there is also a demand for breeder pot as respects PR 114, PR 111, PR 116 and PR 115 from the other states and seed firms, said Dr Trough. Keeping the increasing demand contemporary view PAU has produced enough seed of PR-118.<\p>
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