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Sugarcane Breeding
- Study of flowering & fuzz production.
- Introduction + maintenance of gene-pool.
- Taxonomy and classification of varieties / clones.
- Raising of sugarcane seedling and shifting in field.
- Study of sugarcane seedlings in field and selection of single plants.
- Nursery-I, II and III.
- Semi-final varietal trial.
- Early final varietal trial.
- Medium and late varietal trial.
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10 Trials
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2. Sugarcane Agronomy
- Irrigation
- Seed rate cum varietal trial
- Harvesting dates effect on ratoonability
- No. of buds in a sett
- Varietal cum fertilizer trial
- NUVYT trial
- Yield & quality comparison of sugar beet varieties
3. Sugarcane Technology
- Post harvest losses in yield and quality of sugarcane varieties for mill purpose
- Quality comparison of cane samples at various stages.
- Elemental sulphur effect on sugarcane yield and quality
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13 trials
3 trials
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4. Sugarcane Pathology
- Screening of sugarcane varieties / clones against red rot disease
- Screening of sugarcane varieties / clones against whip smut disease
- Screening of sugarcane varieties / clones against pokkah boeng disease
- Screening of sugarcane varieties / clones against red stripe
- Screening of sugarcane varieties against sugarcane rust Control of mosaic by serial heat treatment
5. Sugarcane Insect Pest
- Screening of promising lines against insect pests /
- borers (semi-final, early final, medium & late final and NUVYT)
- Chemical control of sugarcane borers and pyrilla
- Light trap studies
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8 trials
7 trials
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Sugarcane Research Station, Khanpur
Sugarcane Breeding
- Introduction of new sugarcane varieties for acclimatization and selection.
- Semi-final varietal trial
- Final varietial trial
- Autumn planted varietal trial
- (Set-1, Set-2 & Set-III)
Sugarcane Agronomy
- Inter-cropping wheat in autumn
- planted sugarcane
- Ratooning potential of promising
- sugarcane varieties (Set-1 & Set-2)
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6 trials
3 trials
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Sugarcane Research Sub-Station, Bahawalpur
Sugarcane Agronomy
- Autumn planted varietal trial
- Spring planted varietal trial
- To evaluate the ratooning potential of promising sugarcane varieties.
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3 trials
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Sugarcane Research Sub-Station, Tret, Murree
- Fuzz production at Pail and Charrapani.
- 111 clones of different origin (countries) are under testing for fuzz production
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