he Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has developed and recommended two new varieties, namely PBW 826 of wheat and OL 16 of oats for general cultivation in Punjab. Both the varieties were approved during the meeting of the State Variety Approval Committee, held under the chairmanship of Dr Gurvinder Singh, Director of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Punjab recently.
Dr Satbir Singh Gosal, Vice-Chancellor, PAU and Dr Ajmer Singh Dhatt, Director of Research, PAU congratulated the wheat improvement research team and the forage improvement team for developing these varieties.
Dr Ashok Kumar, Director of Extension Education, PAU informed that the seed of the new wheat variety PBW 826 will be available for purchase at all the Kisan Melas being organized by PAU, Ludhiana at various locations across the State including Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Bathinda, Rauni (Patiala), Faridkot, Ballowal Saunkhri (Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar), besides the main campus at Ludhiana during September 2022.
The new wheat variety PBW 826 has been approved for cultivation in the Punjab state under irrigated timely sown conditions. Its average grain yield is 24.0 quintals per acre. Based on adaptive and multilocation research trials conducted under irrigated, timely-sown conditions in the Punjab state, wheat variety PBW 826 out-yielded the check varieties HD 3086, HD 2967, DBW 187, DBW 222 and PBW 766 by 15.5, 31.6, 11.3, 8.7 and 4.4 per cent, respectively. It possesses higher grain weight and hectolitre weight than check varieties. Its average plant height is 100 cm and is thus slightly shorter in height than other recently released varieties. It matures in about 148 days and is thus about 4-6 days earlier in maturity than other recent checks. It is relatively less sensitive to high temperature stress. This is further corroborated by its outstanding performance under diverse agro-climatic conditions encompassing several locations with high temperature stress. In research trials at national level, PBW 826 ranked first for grain yield in North-Western Plains Zones of India (NWPZ) during all three years of testing (2019-20 to 2021-22) as well as in North-Eastern Plains Zone of India (NEPZ) during 2019-2020 and 2020-21. Based on its splendid performance for grain yield and other traits, it has also been identified for release in the entire NWPZ and NEPZ, simultaneously, which is a rarity.
Oat is primarily a fodder crop of Punjab and PAU has till date released several fodder varieties of oat. However, recently oat has emerged as a breakfast cereal and keeping this in view, the State Variety Approval Committee has approved a new oat variety OL 16 (dual type) for cultivation in Punjab state. It has good fodder, grain and flour quality as well. Its first cut for fodder can be taken at 65-70 days after sowing and yields on an average about 90.0 quintals of green fodder per acre. Its regenerated crop, upon maturity, gives average 7.6 quintals per acre grain yield.
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