Development of quality seed, which is low on production cost for boosting onion production, is the need of hour, a top ICAR official said after inaugurating a brainstorming session at national Horticultural Research and Development Foundation in the district today.
About 125 scientists attended the session with the theme of "crop improvement and seed production of onion" being held at HRDF in Chitegaon.
N K Krishnakumar, DDG (Horticulture), Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) also underlined the need to develop varieties which have a high-yield potential and are also disease and pest-resistant.
G. Kallo, Ex-DDG (Horticulture), ICAR and ex-VC, JNKVV, Jabalpur was the chief guest on the occasion.
"Production breeding, quality breeding and resistance breeding are three important areas to develop improved variety to have high yield and there is a need to work on these aspects, particularly for onion crop," Kallo said.
He said the seed dynamics and plant population dynamics also have important role in determining the yield potential.
Two publications 'onion calendar' and souvenir of the brainstorming session were released on the occasion.
