Screening of urdbean entries against insect pest of urdbean [SLVT]
Research Type
State Trial
Experiment Background
Vigna mungo is an important pulse crop grown throughout India. It is grown in an area of about three million hectares in India. Annual production of urdbean in India is about 1.3 million tonnes. It is mainly used as 'dal' and in preparation of many dishes in our diet. In southern parts of the country, it is used in preparation of some special dishes. It is very rich in protein containing about 25 per cent protein in its seed and is the richest in phosphoric acid among pulses. Besides, this green fodder of urdbean is very nutritive and is specially useful for milch cattle. It can also be used as green manure. It also acts as cover crop and its deep root system protects the soil from erosion. Urdbean being leguminous has the capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen and thus helps in restoring the soil fertility. Therefore, the present study will be proposed to find out sources of resistant to overcome pod borer occurrence. Different genotype with susceptible check used for this purpose.
Experiment Group
Agricultural Entomology
Unit Type
(01)RESEARCH UNIT
Unit
(39)MEGA SEED PULSES AND CASTOR RESEARCH UNIT (NAVSARI)
Department
(292)Nodal officer (megaseed) & Unit Head (seed), Pulses and Castor Research Station
BudgetHead
(328/12007/00)328/01/REG/00211
Objective
To identify the resistant source against insect pest of urdbean
Season
Kharif
Location Unit Type
(01)RESEARCH UNIT
Location Unit
(39)MEGA SEED PULSES AND CASTOR RESEARCH UNIT (NAVSARI)
Location Department
(292)Nodal officer (megaseed) & Unit Head (seed), Pulses and Castor Research Station