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 Agriculture
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High yielding varieties and hybrids of cotton (Nimbkar-1, NH-391 and
NH-101), sunflower (NSFH-10), safflower
(NARI-SH-1 and Nira), and sweet sorghum (Madhura) have been developed.
High quality seeds of safflower and sweet sorghum produced at NARI’s own
farms are available on commercially attractive terms.
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NARI is one of the research centers included in the All India Coordinated
Research Project on Oilseeds
for irrigated safflower under the aegis of the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research (ICAR, New Delhi). Several varieties/hybrids are being developed
and tested. A new safflower non-spiny variety NARI-6 has been released nationally in 2000. In 2002 a non spiny hybrid NARI-NH-1 has been released.
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Agrochemical
testing for various companies and research laboratories in India is
carried out at NARI. Data generated by NARI are acceptable to the Central
Insecticides Board for purposes of registration of new pesticides. The
clientele has included many reputed companies like NOCIL, Godrej Soaps,
Gharda Chemical, Marson, Hoechst Schering Agrevo and Hindustan Lever (all
from Mumbai), NCL and Sudarshan Chemicals (Pune), IICT (Hyderabad), EID
Parry (Chennai) etc.
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NARI has been a pioneer in developing sweet sorghum as a multifuel crop in India. Complete technology for producing ethanol, jaggery
and syrup from sweet sorghum has therefore been developed. The syrup is being
marketed under the brand name "MADHURA". Its therapeutic use as treatment
of asthma is being investigated. The seed of MADHURA hybrid is available.
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