Maize
Maize OPV
- Maintenance/ improvement of base populations.
- Evaluation of local, national (NUMYT) and international (CIMMYT) material.
- Production of BNS, pre-basic, basic and certified seed.
Maize Hybrid
- Maintenance and derivation of yellow maize inbred lines.
- Derivation of white maize inbred lines.
- Derivation of sweet corn inbred lines.
- Derivation of popcorn inbred lines.
- Screening / development of germplasm against stalk rot and heat stress.
- Constitution of new single cross hybrids.
- Evaluation of new hybrids in preliminary, micro, macro and hybrid yield trials.
- Development of inducer lines with high induction rate under local environmental conditions.
- Evaluation of national (NUMYT) & international (CIMMYT) material.
- Seed multiplication of inbred lines for promising maize hybrid constitution.
- Seed production of single cross maize hybrids.
- Demonstration / on-farm testing of promising hybrids.
Sorghum
- Maintenance of gene pool.
- Maintenance of cytoplasmic male sterile (A) lines.
- Maintenance of fertility restorer (R) lines.
- Development of dual purpose sweet sorghum varieties.
- Sorghum varietal yield trial.
- Constitution of varietal crosses.
- Constitution of sorghum hybrids.
- Sorghum hybrid yield trial.
- Evaluation of sorghum varieties/ hybrids in national (NUMYT) and on-farm yield trials.
- Production of BNS, pre-basic, basic and certified seed.
Pearl Millet
- Maintenance of gene pool.
- Maintenance of cytoplasmic male sterile (A) lines.
- Maintenance of fertility restorer (R) lines.
- Derivation of fertility restorer (R) lines.
- Constitution of pearl millet hybrids.
- Development of dual purpose pearl millet varieties.
- Constitution of varietal crosses.
- Pearl millet varietal yield trial.
- Evaluation of pearl millet varieties in national (NUMYT) and on-farm yield trials.
- Production of BNS, pre-basic, basic and certified seed.
Agronomy
- Standardization / finding of optimum plant spacings and irrigations for different OPV’s and hybrids of maize, sorghum & pearl millet crops for getting maximum and economical yields
- Testing of new herbicides against weeds in maize, sorghum & pearl millet crops.
Soil Chemistry
- Standardization of fertilizer doses for maize, sorghum & pearl millet crops for obtaining economical returns.
Plant Pathology
- Testing of maize hybrids /OPVs against stalk rot.
- Testing of different seed dressing fungicides against diseases.
Entomology
- Testing of different seed dressing insecticides against shoot fly.
- Testing of spray able insecticides for the control of maize and sorghum borer.