Provision of Additional Research Facilities for Development of Heat Resilient Maize Hybrids at Maize & Millets Research Institute
Provision of Additional Research Facilities for Development of Heat Resilient Maize Hybrids at Maize & Millets Research Institute
Duration
(2015-16 to 2019-20)
Total Cost
Rs. 48.000 Million
Target Achieved
Three heat tolerant maize hybrids; YH-5427, YH-5482 and FH-988 were developed and got approved from Punjab Seed Council for general cultivation.
Deployment of these hybrids will mitigate risk of high temperature effect and availability of local hybrids at cheaper rate that will secure farmers' profit.
7080 kg seed of maize hybrids and their parental lines were produced along with standardization of their hybrid seed production technologies.
Four Research Papers on research findings of this project, were got published in National and International Journals.