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Teamwork delivers biotechnology products to Indian small-holder crop-livestock producers: Pearl millet hybrid “HHB 67 Improved” enters seed delivery pipeline

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Title Teamwork delivers biotechnology products to Indian small-holder crop-livestock producers: Pearl millet hybrid “HHB 67 Improved” enters seed delivery pipeline
 
Creator Hash, C T
Sharma, A
Kolesnikova-Allen, M A
Singh, S D
Thakur, R P
Raj, A G B
Rao, M N V R
Nijhawan, D C
Beniwal, C R
Sagar, P
Yadav, H P
Yadav, Y P
Srikant, -
Bhatnagar, S K
Khairwal, I S
Howarth, C J
Cavan, G P
Gale, M D
Leu, C
Devos, K M
Breese, W A
Witcombe, J R
 
Subject Millets
 
Description HHB 67, released in 1990 by CCS Haryana Agricultural University, is one such single-cross pearl millet hybrid. HHB 67 is highly popular because of its extra-early maturity (it needs less than 65 days from sowing to grain maturity) and is now grown on over 500 000 ha in Haryana and Rajasthan, India. Recent surveys have indicated that this hybrid is starting to succumb to downy mildew (DM; caused by the pseudo-fungus Sclerospora graminicola), showing up to 30% incidence in farmers' fields. By rapidly adopting hybrid "HHB 67 Improved", farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan can avoid grain production losses of Rs36 crores (US$8 million) which would be expected in the first year of a major DM outbreak on the original HHB 67.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2738/1/Teamwork_delivers_biotechnology_products_to.pdf
Hash, C T and Sharma, A and Kolesnikova-Allen, M A and Singh, S D and Thakur, R P and Raj, A G B and Rao, M N V R and Nijhawan, D C and Beniwal, C R and Sagar, P and Yadav, H P and Yadav, Y P and Srikant, - and Bhatnagar, S K and Khairwal, I S and Howarth, C J and Cavan, G P and Gale, M D and Leu, C and Devos, K M and Breese, W A and Witcombe, J R (2006) Teamwork delivers biotechnology products to Indian small-holder crop-livestock producers: Pearl millet hybrid “HHB 67 Improved” enters seed delivery pipeline. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research, 2 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 0973-3094