• Recommendations for farmers:
  • Year 1991- 92

    It is recommended that farmers of Sanand area should apply 25 t FYM/ha to the Gadaku nursery for getting more amd healthy seedlings and higher monetary returns.

    It is recommended that the farmers of Sanand area growing GT-4 tobacco should follow deep ploughing during monsoon and the fertilizers should be applied in ‘ fachar Khed ‘ 20-25 days before planting (ICBR 1:2.58).

  • Year 1992- 93

    Farmers of Sanand area of North Gujarat Zone growing Gadaku tobacco variety GT-4 are advised to follow normal ploughing in monsoon and interculture by hoeing 3 times for getting higher monetary returns.

  • Year 1997- 98

    The Gadaku tobacco (GT-7) growing farmers of Sanand (AES-IX) are advised to do topping at 18 to 21 leaves stage. It should be fertilized with 100 kg N/ha.

• Recommendation for scientific community:
  • Year 1993-94

    Covering nematode infested bidi tobacco nursery with clear plastic during hot summer months, consecutively for three years did not help to produce higher number of transplants in the fourth season controlling the nematodes. It indicates the need of soil solarization every year.

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After 2008

 Breeding work

Crop   Dill seed

Two Dill seed varieties were released for the farmers.

1. GAVD 1    

Considering the uniqueness of the variety GAVD 1 and looking to the overall performance over four  tests in Middle Gujarat condition, this genotype has gave average biomass yield under normal condition to the tune of 256.79 q/ha and showed 3.27, 17.72 and  6.65%  higher green biomass yield over the check varieties GD 1, GD 2 and GD 3, respectively. The variety GAVD 1 gives higher foliage yield due to vigorous vegetable growth and more number of branches and has dark green colour of foliage, very few big umbel with more umbellate, good aroma, high volatile oil content and produce late flowering as compared to any other culture. Therefore, this genotype can be utilized for vegetable purpose for a longer period. The variety GAVD 1 had low incidence of powdery mildew disease as compared to check varieties GD 1, GD 2 and GD 3. Therefore, this variety GAVD 1  is recommend for the cultivation in the Indian dill growing area of the Gujarat state exclusively for vegetable purpose.

2. GAD 1

The variety GAD 1 yielded 1561 kg/ha seed yield, which is 15.53 % higher over check variety GD-3 under rainfed condition whereas it yielded 1885 kg/ha seed yield which is 12.02 % higher over check variety GD-3 under irrigated condition. It is 10 days early in maturity (av. 133 days) as compared to GD-3 (143 days). The seeds are less flattened and medium in size. The genotype has more number of umbels (12.1-51.4), more number of umbellets/umbels (21.5-50.1), number of seeds/umbellets (22.0-32.7) and shorter plant height (73-127cm) compared to check variety. Looking to above characteristics, it is recommended for release in north and middle Gujarat.

Crop  Castor

Generation wise details and new crosses made during the  two years then breeding materials were transferred to Sansoli centre in 2013