CropsIntegrated management cuts African giant snail infestation by 60-70% in Udaipur
ICAR's integrated pest management centre showed Rajasthan tribal farmers how hand-picking, traps, natural enemies and targeted baits bring the pest under control.
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Crops
FisheriesMaharashtra opens its first murrel hatchery to supply pond farmers with fingerlings
With ICAR-CIFE's help, a hatchery at Kanase near Pune bred about 2.5 lakh striped murrel hatchlings and 45,000 fingerlings using an improved peptide hormone, meeting demand from farm-pond owners.
FisheriesCMFRI hatchery produces 1 lakh oyster spat, easing seed shortage on India's east coast
ICAR-CMFRI's Madras station produced and shipped 100,000 cultchless spat of the Indian backwater oyster to Maharashtra and settled 1.5 lakh larvae on shells for farming trials in Pulicat Lagoon.
Crops
ICAR's mustard institute licenses hybrid NRCHB-506 to Abhimanyu Seeds
The ICAR-Indian Institute of Rapeseed-Mustard Research at Bharatpur has signed a non-exclusive agreement with Abhimanyu Seeds of Hapur for hybrid seed production and marketing of Indian mustard hybrid NRCHB-506, which director Vijay Veer Singh ties to India's goal of self-sufficiency in edible oils.
Health
Zinc-rich rice for 200 undernourished children at 18 Telangana anganwadis
ICAR-IIRR Hyderabad and the Madanapuram KVK distributed 1,000 kg of milled DRR Dhan 48 and 500 kg of DRR Dhan 63 to 18 anganwadi centres in Wanaparthy district for about 90 days of supplementation, after earlier feeding with DRR Dhan 45 and 48 was reported to improve height and weight in three- to s
Livestock
ICAR-CARI and ILRI assemble a chromosome-scale genome of India's red junglefowl
The de novo assembly of Gallus gallus murghi runs to about 1.12 Gb at 99.2% completeness across all 40 chromosomes, with a contig N50 of 36.55 Mb and scaffold N50 of 91.4 Mb; deposited as NCBI BioProject PRJNA1301553, it gives a reference for tracing purity and admixture in the wild ancestor of dome
Agrotech
ICAR signs with GIAN and Arpan Seva Sansthan to document grassroots farm innovations
A five-year MoU with the Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network will identify, validate and mainstream farmers' innovations and traditional ecological knowledge through the KVK network, sentinel villages, village knowledge registers, a climate-resilience initiative and a possible PhD programme