Hisar-based Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University has developed two new high yielding and pest resistant cotton varieties for sowing in central cone of the country.
Two new varieties of cotton-- H1316 and H1353, are American cotton varieties which are high yielding as well as resistant against sucking pests and these varieties also have better ginning outturn, said an official release.
The Central Variety Identification/Release Committee in the All India Coordinated Research Project meeting held at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana has identified these varieties for release in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat states of the Central India.
"In general, cotton varieties are released for cultivation in the zone in which these have been developed. But this is the first time that cotton varieties developed in one zone have been released in other zone of the country," said K S Khokhar, Vice-Chancellor of the University.
He said new are suitable for cultivation under irrigated and rainfed conditions, respectively.
The potential yield of these varieties was 2,926 kg/ha and 2,825 kg/ha, respectively.
In the coordinated trials, variety H1316 gave mean seed cotton yield of 1,988 kg/ha in the Central Zone against 1,524 kg/ha of zonal check variety LRA5166 and 1,742 kg/ha of local check variety, he said.
Similarly, the other new variety H1353 recorded a mean seed cotton yield of 1,365 kg/ha against 1,010 kg/ha of zonal check LRA 5166 and 1,142 kg/ha of local check variety, Khokhar said.
