8th November, 2019, Manipur
The Plant Breeding Section, ICAR-Research Complex for North-Eastern Hills Region, Manipur Centre organized a one-day Programme on “Farmers’ Participatory Varietal Selection” at the Lamphelpat Farm of ICAR-RC for NEHR, Manipur Centre today.
A total of 21 progressive farmers from 5 Districts of the State, Viz., Imphal (East), Imphal (West), Kakching, Thoubal and Bishenpur participated in the programme.
Around 9 of them were nominated by SAMETI, Manipur and remaining was selected by Plant Breeding Section of the Centre. They are undertaking the Section’s Multi-Location Varietal Trials in 5 Districts during the Kharif - 2019.
The participating farmers rated or scored the performances of varietal lines in terms of grain quality and plant characteristics. The preference index was calculated for all 48 varietal lines. The best 5 lines were selected from the programme and would be forwarded for inclusion in the multi-location and multi-year trials in Kharif - 2020.
The main objective of programme was to include the farmers in evaluating the advanced promising new varietal lines developed by the ICAR-RC for NEHR, Manipur Centre.
(Source: ICAR-Research Complex for North-Eastern Hills Region, Manipur Centre)
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