Varieties recently released :

Rice

• Pavithra, Panjami, Uma, Karishma, Krishnanjana : Tolerant to gall midge biotype 5
• Remanika : Short duration variety
• Revathi : Medium duration
• Karishma, Krishnanjana : For kari soils in Kuttanad
• Karuna : Widely adaptable photo sensitive variety
• Deepthi : For high ranges of Kerala
• Makarom, Kumbham : For eastern lateritic belts during mundakan
• Harsha

Sesame

• Thilathara : Average yield 582 kg/ha

Blackgram

• Sumanjana

Cowpea

• Vyjayanthi : High yielding wine red poded
• Kairali
• Bhagyalakshmi
• Lola
• Subhra : Grain type

Cucumber

• Soubhagya : Small to medium size, high yielding
• Mudicode : Attractive golden yellow fruits, High yielding
• Mudicode : High yielding, Attractive colour
• Arunima

Brinjal

• Neelima : First brinjal hybrid of KAU, bacterial wilt resistant
• Haritha : High yielding bacterial wilt resistant long duration variety

Bittergourd

• Priyanka : High yielding

Snakegourd

• Kaumudi : White type, long fruits, high yielding

Ash gourd

• KAU local : High yielding, highly adaptable
• Indu : High yielding, mosaic tolerant

Ridge gourd

• Haritha

Chinese Potato

• Nidhi : Early, high yielding

Greater yam

• Indu : High yielding

Black pepper

• Panniyur 6
• Panniyur 7

Cocoa

• CCRP 1,2,3,4,5 and 6

Sugarcane

• Madhumathi : High yielding mid late maturing, high jaggery quality and recovery

Other Technologies

• Among the new fungicides, Carpropamide was observed to be effective in controlling rice blast disease.
• Ocimum trap plus Malathion 0.1% at monthly intervals is recommended for control of mango fruit flies.
• Studies on crop competition in banana conducted in the high ranges revealed nutrient sharing between mats.
• For guinea grass, farm yard manure was found to be superior to vermicompost with respect to yield.
• Acceptability trials in okra revealed that Thamaravenda was more acceptable than Pusa sawani.
• Storage of cashew apples at 150 C in polythene lined containers was found to prolong the shelf life to two weeks.
• The Agro Advisory Services Unit at Vellanikkara catered to the needs of the farmers of the five Panchayaths viz. Panancherry, Ollukkara, Cherpu, Madakkathara and Porathissery. Weekly Agro- Advisory Bulletins were prepared based on the medium range weather forecast received from the Super Computer Centre, NCMRWF, New Delhi and distributed to the Krishi Bhavans.
• Developed equipment and tools such as tender coconut punch, tender coconut cutter, black pepper thresher, fruit plucker and papaya plucker.
• Ivermectin was found to be the most effective drug (@ 0.3mg/kg 5/C) followed by Karangi oil in the treatment of psoroptes and notoedruscati in rabbits.
• Chaff grain meal, a byproduct of rice mill industry, could be effectively and economically substituted for yellow maize, the costly energy supplement in rations of swine.
• Carcass meal could be effectively included in the diets of pigs.
• Blood as a feed supplement in growing desi pigs was found to be economic.
• Swill is recommended for full replacement of concentrate pig feed.
• Etroplus suratensis seeds could be produced in large numbers by providing egg attaching materials (coconut leaf petiole) in pokkali ponds during the breeding season of October-February.
• Silver carp could be successfully grown in pokkali ponds during the low saline phase from June to October.

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