Kathamndu, Nepal
2008
Variety Approval, Release and
Registration Sub-Committee under National Seed Board that met on
20 March 2008 officially released and registered a new rice
variety named ‘Sunaulo Sugandha’ along with complete package of
practices for farmers to cultivate in terai, inner terai and
foothills up to 500 masl in Nepal.
The new rice variety released after 10 years’ research and
experiments at different research stations and farmers’ fields
at different locations coordinated by Local Initiative for
Biodiversity, Research and Development (LIBIRD) in collaboration
with National Rice Research Program under
Nepal Agricultural Research
Council (NARC), CAZS-Natural Resources, Bangor University,
UK and Jaskelo Youth Club (JYC), Chitwan. This was developed
using client oriented breeding (COB) approaches. The variety has
been recommended to cultivate in terai and inner terai under
both irrigated and rain-fed conditions in cropping patterns:
Rice-Winter vegetables-Mungbean/Maize/Chaite rice/vegetables;
Rice-Fallow-Mungbean/Chaite rice/Spring rice; Rice -
Potato-Maize/Chaite rice; Rice-Wheat-Fallow;
Rice-Mustard-Maize/Chaite rice/Mungbean.
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This variety has been released as
it is high yielding and has good aroma and eating quality that
gives higher market price. It is non-lodging and responsive to
applied fertilizers, has long panicles, gives high straw yields,
has high milling recovery. It is also found resistant to leaf
and neck blast diseases. It has an yield potential of 5.5 t/ha
and maturity period of 151 days from seeding.
The meeting of the Sub-Committee was held under the Chairmanship
of Dr. Nanda Prasad Shrestha, Executive Director of NARC. |
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