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Varieties
recently released :
Rice
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Pavithra, Panjami, Uma, Karishma, Krishnanjana
: Tolerant to gall midge biotype 5
* Remanika
: Short duration variety
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Revathi : Medium duration
* Karishma,
Krishnanjana : For kari soils in Kuttanad
* Karuna :
Widely adaptable photo sensitive variety
* Deepthi :
For high ranges of Kerala
*Makarom, Kumbham
: For eastern lateritic belts during mundakan
*Harsha
*Sesame
* Thilathara
: Average yield 582 kg/ha
*Blackgram
* Sumanjana
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Cowpea
*Vyjayanthi
: High yielding wine red poded
*Kairali
*Bhagyalakshmi
* Lola
*Subhra : Grain
type |
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Cucumber
*Soubhagya
: Small to medium size, high yielding
* Mudicode
: Attractive golden yellow fruits, High
yielding
* Mudicode
: High yielding, Attractive colour
* Arunima |
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Brinjal
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Neelima : First brinjal hybrid of KAU, bacterial
wilt resistant
* Haritha :
High yielding bacterial wilt resistant long
duration variety |
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Bittergourd
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Priyanka : High yielding |
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Snakegourd
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Kaumudi : White type, long fruits, high
yielding |
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Ash
gourd
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KAU local : High yielding, highly adaptable
* Indu : High
yielding, mosaic tolerant |
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Ridge
gourd
Chinese
Potato
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Nidhi : Early, high yielding |
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Greater
yam
Black
pepper
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Panniyur 6
* Panniyur
7 |
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Cocoa
Sugarcane
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Madhumathi : High yielding mid late maturing,
high jaggery quality and recovery
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Other
Technologies
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Among
the new fungicides, Carpropamide was observed
to be effective in controlling rice blast
disease. |
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Ocimum trap plus Malathion 0.1% at monthly
intervals is recommended for control of
mango fruit flies. |
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Studies
on crop competition in banana conducted
in the high ranges revealed nutrient sharing
between mats. |
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For guinea grass, farm yard manure was found
to be superior to vermicompost with respect
to yield. |
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Acceptability
trials in okra revealed that Thamaravenda
was more acceptable than Pusa sawani. |
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Storage
of cashew apples at 150 C in polythene lined
containers was found to prolong the shelf
life to two weeks. |
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The Agro Advisory Services Unit at Vellanikkara
catered to the needs of the farmers of the
five Panchayaths viz. Panancherry, Ollukkara,
Cherpu, Madakkathara and Porathissery. Weekly
Agro- Advisory Bulletins were prepared based
on the medium range weather forecast received
from the Super Computer Centre, NCMRWF,
New Delhi and distributed to the Krishi
Bhavans. |
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Developed
equipment and tools such as tender coconut
punch, tender coconut cutter, black pepper
thresher, fruit plucker and papaya plucker.
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Ivermectin
was found to be the most effective drug
(@ 0.3mg/kg 5/C) followed by Karangi oil
in the treatment of psoroptes and notoedruscati
in rabbits. |
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Chaff
grain meal, a byproduct of rice mill industry,
could be effectively and economically substituted
for yellow maize, the costly energy supplement
in rations of swine. |
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Carcass
meal could be effectively included in the
diets of pigs. |
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Blood
as a feed supplement in growing desi pigs
was found to be economic. |
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Swill
is recommended for full replacement of concentrate
pig feed. |
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Etroplus suratensis seeds could be produced
in large numbers by providing egg attaching
materials (coconut leaf petiole) in pokkali
ponds during the breeding season of October-February.
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Silver
carp could be successfully grown in pokkali
ponds during the low saline phase from June
to October. |
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