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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Answer to climate shocks? Heat-resistant wheat from ICAR hits markets, ‘grows in 100 days’ -Mohana Basu

Answer to climate shocks? Heat-resistant wheat from ICAR hits markets, ‘grows in 100 days’ -Mohana Basu

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published Published on Jun 15, 2022   modified Modified on Jun 15, 2022

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'Pusa Ahilya' or HI 1634 is said to allow later sowing without risk of heatwave effects, and have a high yield potential of 70.6 quintals per hectare.

New Delhi: At a time when wheat farmers across the country are reeling from poor harvests due a scorching March, scientists at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have released a new heat-resistant variety of the crop.

Known as HI 1634 or ‘Pusa Ahilya’, this variety is described as suitable for the climate of a belt running from Rajasthan and Gujarat in the west, through Madhya Pradesh, to parts of Uttar Pradesh. It is said to allow farmers to protect their crops from heatwaves even if they sow their crops later than usual.

After three years of field trials, the variety is available for cultivation in the next season in the aforementioned states.

The Pusa Ahilya variety can be sown as late as December or January, according to the researchers who developed it. Flowering occurs within 100 days, which means that the crop can be harvested in March. Wheat is usually sown in October-November and harvested in March-April.

“HI 1634 or Pusa Ahilya was released for late sowing conditions — that is, for those farmers who want to sow wheat after potatoes or any other crop in the month of December or January,” Divya Ambati, a researcher at ICAR-Indian Institute Of Oilseeds Research in Madhya Pradesh, and part of the team that developed the variety, told ThePrint.

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ThePrint.in, 15 June, 2022, https://theprint.in/india/answer-to-climate-shocks-heat-resistant-wheat-from-icar-hits-markets-grows-in-100-days/996689/?fbclid=IwAR0J69emUt84AkfRIOj6fv0-46Iap_fWVRiDEiWAxkEZdMqEtH7xp7OTn-Q


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