PAU Crop Varieties Notified By GOI

Ludhiana, April 29, 2015: According to Dr J.S Brar, Director (Seeds), Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of India has notified paddy variety PR-124 for Haryana and Punjab states, and gobhi sarson variety GSC-7 for Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan. The varieties were notified during the 71st meeting of Central Sub- Committee on Crop Standard Notification and Release of Varieties for Agricultural Crops, held in March, 2015. Dr Baldev Singh Dhillon, Vice-Chancellor, PAU said this is a matter of pride for PAU that its varieties have been released for many northern states.