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Success Stories of Hybrid Pigeonpea in India

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123-2012
 
Title Success Stories of Hybrid Pigeonpea in India
 
Creator Kumar, R V
Saxena, K B
Kumar, P
 
Subject Pigeonpea
 
Description The hybrid pigeonpea is now being popularized in parts of India because of enhancement in the yields.
The promising hybrids are ICPH 2671, ICPH 2740 and ICPH 3762. Of these, ICPH 2671 was released
as ‘Pushkal’ by seed company in 2008 and later in December, 2010 as ‘RV ICPH 2671’ by State Variety
Release Committe, Madhya Pradesh. The other two promising hybrids are under fi nal stage of testing.
The yield enhancement recorded in hybrids were between 25 to 30% in farmers’ fi elds. These hybrids
are resistant to both wilt and sterility mosaic diseases. More than 2000 on-farm trials were conducted
in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. The hybrids
have shown high yields under both pure as well as inter-crop conditions. In some on-farm trials hybrids
have yielded more than 40 q/ha suggesting a possible breakthrough in the productivity of pigeonpea.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7176/1/SuccessStoriesOfHP_full.pdf
Kumar, R V and Saxena, K B and Kumar, P (2012) Success Stories of Hybrid Pigeonpea in India. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh.