Lok Sabha Question No. 3449 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-07
Subject: Development of Eco-friendly Flood/ Drought Tolerant Seeds
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: SHIVKUMAR CHANABASAPPA UDASI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3449

TO BE ANSWERED ON 07/08/2018

## DEVELOPMENT OF ECO-FRIENDLY FLOOD/DROUGHT TOLERANT SEEDS

## 3449.  SHRI SHIVKUMAR UDASI:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE d`f"k vkSj fdlku dY;k.k ea=h be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is developing eco-friendly flood/drought tolerant seeds in the country, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  the  Government  has  conducted  research  study  on  the  generation  of flood/drought resistant seed varieties; and
- (c) if so, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE d`f'k vkSj fdlku dY;k.k ea=ky; esa jkT; ea=h

(SHRI GAJENDRA SINGH SHEKHAWAT)

(a) to (c): Crop Science Division of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), through its 21 Research Institutes, 03 Bureaux, 02 National Research Centres, 02 Project Directorates,  22  All  India  Coordinated  Research  Projects  (AICRPs)  and  10  Network Research Projects, and in active collaboration with State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) is  engaged  in  the  development  of  eco-friendly,  improved  crop  varieties/  hybrids,  to enhance crop productivity and ensure food and nutritional security in the country.

These  schemes  are  crop  or  technology  specific,  and  every  AICRP  scheme  is distributed  in  different  areas  across  the  country.  The  main  emphasis  has  been  on development of trait-specific high yielding crop varieties and hybrids, specific to specific areas/agro-climatic  zones.  As  a  result,  since  May  2014  to  till  date,  a  total  of  795  stress tolerant,  high  yielding,  agro-climatic  zone  specific varieties  have  been developed, which comprised 437 of cereals, 116 of oil seeds, 112 of pulses, 62 of fibre crops, 46 of forage crops  and  22  of  sugarcane.  Development  of  varieties  is  a  continuous  process  as  per  the mandate  of  the  crop  based  institutes.  As  a  result  of  the  concerted  efforts  by  National Agricultural  Research  System  (NARS),  a  number  of  drought  and  flood  tolerant/resistant varieties have been developed, the details of which has been given in Annexure-I .

Under National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), a network project  of  ICAR,  institutes  are  aiming  to  enhance  resilience  of  field  crop  genotypes  to climate  change  and  climate  vulnerability  through  conducting  strategic  research  and technology  demonstration.  State  of  the  art  infrastructure  facilities  like  High  Throughput Plant Phenomics and rainout shelter facilities were established at core institutes of ICAR to screen and characterize number of germplasm lines and use in future breeding programs. Collection  and  characterization  of  germplasm  lines  from  different  locations  across  the country have been undertaken by ICAR institutes. Efforts are also made to isolate genes responsible for drought tolerance for further utilization in crop improvement programmes. Under  this  programme,  the  genotypes  identified  for  flood/drought  are  used  as  donor parents in breeding programmes.

Further, in AICRPs, the advanced breeding lines generated at all these centres are nominated and evaluated  in hot spot areas  in AICRP program along with checks for 3 years  in  initial  variety  trial  and  advance  variety  trial  1  &  2  and  are  released  when  they show superior performance over the checks under the respective stress areas.

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## Annexure-I [Part (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha USQ No.3449 for 07/08/2018]

## Drought and Flood tolerant varieties released and notified during May 2014 to till date

| Crop          | Drought/moisture stress tolerant/ water stress/low rainfall                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Flood/submergence/water logging tolerance/deep water                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Cereals       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Rice          | IR-64 Drt I (IET 22836); Birsa Vikas Dhan 111; Birsa Vikas Dhan 203; Sabour Shree (RAU 724-48-33); Kalachampa; DRR Dhan 44 (IET 22081); DRR Dhan 43 (IET 22080); ADV 8301 (IET22410) Hybrid; DRR Dhan 46; JRH 19 (Hybrid); NandyalaSona (NDLR 7); Daksha (KMP- 175); DRR Dhan 47 (IET 23356); DRR Dhan 50 (IET 25671); CAU-RI (IET 23544); Him Palam Lal Dhan-1 (HPR 2795) | CR Dhan 505; CR Dhan 508; Samba Sub-1 (IET 21248); Tanmayee (OR2339-8) (IET20262); CR 1009 Sub 1; Bheema (Dheera) (MTU 1140); CR Dhan 506 (IET 23053); CR Dhan 408 (IET 20265) Chakaakhi; CR Dhan 507(IET 22986); CR Dhan 409 (IET 23110); CO 43 Sub-1 (IET 25676); DRR Dhan 50 (IET 25671); Ranjit SUB-1; Bahadur SUB-1 |
| Wheat         | Sabour Nirjal (BRW 3723); HUW669 (Malviya 669)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Maize         | DHM 121 (BH 41009) Hybrid; KMH-7148 Hybrid; Candy (KSCH-333) Hybrid; D2244 (DAS-MH-501) Hybrid; HTMH 5402 Hybrid; GK 3150 Hybrid; DRONA (KMH-2589) Hybrid; MH 9344 (DMH 192) Hybrid; HTMH 5109 (HT 51412616) Hybrid;                                                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Pearl Millet  | NBH 4903 (Balwan); AHB 1200 Fe (MH 2072 (AHB 1200) Hybrid; BHB-1202 (Bikaner Hybrid Bajra-1202) (MH 1831)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Sorghum       | CSV 32F (SPV 2128); Phule Rohini (RPASV3); Phule Madhur (RSSGV 46); RVICSH 28 (Hybrid);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Little Millet | Jawahar Kutki 4 (JK 4)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Finger Millet | Vakula (PPR 2700); Chhattisgarh Ragi-2 (BR-36)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Kodo Millet   | Jawahar Kodo 137                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Oilseeds      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Toria         | Raj VijayToria 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Soybean       | Pant Soybean 24 (PS 1477)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Linseed       | Utera Alsi (RLC-143)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Pulses        |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Chickpea      | Pusa 3043 (BG 3043)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Lentil        | Kota Masoor 2(RKL 14-20)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Pigeon pea    | Ujwala (PRG 176); GRG 811 (Dharamaraj)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Cowpea        | Karan Chanwla 1 (CPD 119)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Cluster bean  | Karan Guar 1 (RGr-12-1)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

| Horse gram          | Phule Sakas (SHG 0628-4)                                                                                                                                                                                                   |                                                                                                                     |
|---------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Fibres              |                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                     |
| Cotton              | GN.Cot.25; SVPR 1 (TSHH-0629) Hybrid; Nirmal-433 (NACH-433)                                                                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                     |
| Jute                | JRO 2407 Samapti (Tossa Jute)                                                                                                                                                                                              | JRO 2407 Samapti (Tossa Jute); Ishani (JRC-9057) White Jute; NCJ- 28-10 AAUCJ-2 (Kkhyati)                           |
| Roselle             | Sampurna (CRIJAFR 8); Central Roselle Ratna (CRIJAF R-5)                                                                                                                                                                   |                                                                                                                     |
| Sugar crop          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                     |
| Sugarcane           | Sankeshwar 049 (Co Snk 05103); Sankeshwar 814 (Co Snk 05104); CoBIn 02173(22/94) D01YANG; CO 0212; Gujarat Sugarcane 5(CoN 05071); Revathi (2000 A 225 (CoA 05323); Co 09004 (Amritha); SNK-632 (CoSnK 03632); CoVSI 03102 | Gujarat Sugarcane 5(CoN 05071); CoLK 09204 (Ikshu-3); Buddhi 2003 A 255 (CoA 08323); Sankeshwar 814 (Co Snk 05104); |
| Forages             |                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |                                                                                                                     |
| Fodder Pearl Millet | IGPM 5-2                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |                                                                                                                     |
| Fodder Sorghum      | Fodder Sorghum CO 31 (TNFS 0952)                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                     |
| Fodder Cowpea       | CO 9                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                     |
| Ricebean            | Shyamalima (JCR-7-20)                                                                                                                                                                                                      |                                                                                                                     |
| Guinea Grass        | Dharwad Guinea Grass 1(DGG-1) (RSDGG-1)                                                                                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                     |
| Sewan Grass         | CAZRI Sewan-1 (CAZRI 30-5)                                                                                                                                                                                                 |                                                                                                                     |
| Anjan Grass         | CAZRI Anjan-358 (CAZRI 358)                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                     |

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