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Thrust Areas:
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Accelerated &
High-Precision Crop Breeding by employing modern Plant Breeding approaches:
prioritizing Rainfed Agriculture
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Risk efficient plan
to tackle the outbreak of yellow rust in wheat by involving diverse
gene-pools & ultra modern breeding approaches
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Development of
hybrids of rice and maize by utilization of Himalayan gene pools
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Projection of
basmati rice and red rice & enhancement of disease resistance and
nutritional level of different rices
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Special attention to
pulses and oilseeds improvement in hills
Chickpea : ascochyta
blight & fusarium resistance, drought & cold
Rajmash :
anthracnose and angular leaf spot resistance
Urdbean : cercospora
& varieites for intercropping
Brassicas :
alternaria resistance
Linseed : varieties for utera cultivation and dual purpose
varieties for seed & flax
Sesame :
phytophthora resistance
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Breeding programmes
for insect pest resistance in rice, maize & pulses
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Strengthening of
research programme in temperate grasses (red & white clover, tall fescue,Lucerne etc.)
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Breeding efforts in
High value & Low volume crops like Kalazira and saffron
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Breeding strategy
for
changing climatic
scenario in mountains
organic & low input
management
participatory plant
breeding
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Refinement of new
protocols for addressing fundamental research issues
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Focus by every
breeder on nucleus seed production
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Concerted efforts to
protect breeders’ & farmers’ crop varieties by PPV & FRA
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Establishment of
CSKHPKV Plant Germplasm Resource Network involving its Research Centre's,
KVKs & the NBPGR
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Commercialization of
the breeders’ technology through Public-Private Interface
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Synthesize a
Strategic Policy Model for Crop Improvement in Himachal Hills and efforts
to bring it in operation
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