NSL’s Production Team Visit to Odisha

A 12-member team from supply chain management (SCM) and quality department headed by Mr. S R M Prasad, GM (SCM), visited varietal paddy production fields near Bargarh, Odisha, recently. It was a thorough inspection aimed at maintaining good quality of paddy seed at the field level. The team has toured extensively to cover 4000 acre of paddy fields and interacted with farmers, breeders, field staff and production staff.
The production of varietal Paddy consists of various varieties like PRN-1024, PRN-429, PRN-410 and new varieties introduced this time are PRN-436, PRN-434 and PRN-1121 etc.
Mr. Dharmajit Kanungo (RM Marketing), Mr. Ch Nagayana Swamy, AGM Quality and Mr. Bidhunandan Dash, Plant Manager, Bargarh and other Production officers of Bargarh participated in the field visit.

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NSL’s Production Team Visit to Odisha

Sunflower Seeds

Sunflower

Sunflower is one of the most important oil seed crop grown in temperate countries. It is a major source of vegetable oil in the world. In India it has gained popularity due to the national priority of vegetable oil production. India is one of the largest producers of oilseed crop in the world. Oilseeds occupy an important position in the Indian agricultural economy.

Sunflower is one of the fastest growing oilseed crops in India. It occupies fourth place among oilseed crops in terms of acreage and production. Farmers find sunflower as a highly profitable crop, especially in Southern peninsula, consisting of Northern Karnataka, Marathwada and Rayalseema, where the crop is largely cultivated under rainfed conditions during late kharif/rabi season. Due to its short duration, it ideally is sown more between August and October. Karnataka accounts for nearly half the area under sunflower in the country.

Sunflower oil is considered as premium when compared to other vegetable oils. Sunflower is the oil of preference among the consumers the world over due to its health appeal and in India too, sunflower oil is the largest selling oil in the branded oil segment. Sunflower is also a crop of choice for farmers due to its wider adaptability, high yield potential, shorter duration and profitability.

Nuziveedu Seeds – Adding Value through research

Nuziveedu Seeds aims to enrich the potential of this already highly popular and winner of a crop. Keeping the specific customer in mind who cultivate this crop Nuziveedu Seeds is developing new seed products that will offer

• High yielding hybrids with high oil percentage
• Tolerance to biotic & abiotic stresses.

Wheat

How to Grow - Cotton

 

How To Grow

Preparation of Soil

• Light to heavy black soils is suitable for cotton cultivation, can also be successfully grown in light and alluvial soils.

Sowing

• Sowing period is generally May-July
• Seed rate is 1.6-2 packets/acre
• Spacing- 90-105 cm between rows, 45-60 cm between plants in black soils and 30-45 cm in light soils.
• Gap Filling Gap filling must be done as early as possible by using 2 seeds/hill.

Fertilizer application

• NPK as per the table given below.
• Magnesium Deficiency Magnesium Sulphate @ 10g/ ltr. at 45 and 75 DAS may be sprayed to correct the deficiency
• Zinc Deficiency Zinc Sulphate @ 2g/ltr. may be sprayed twice at 5-6 day interval immediately after the deficiency symptoms are noticed.
• Boron Deficiency Spray Borax @ 60 and 90 DAS at 1-1.5 g/litre of water

Irrigation

• Adequate moisture availability during the critical stages of crop growth i.e., germination, seedling growth, flowering, boll formation and development are ensured.
• Cotton is susceptible to water stagnation for long duration, and therefore, care should be taken to drain the excess water from the field and intercultural operations should be done at the earliest.

Crop Management

• Disease Management – Cotton crop is affected by Alternaria blight, Phoma blight, Cercospora leaf spot, Helminthosporium leaf spot and Blackarm diseases after 90 to 100 days of crop growth.
• These can be controlled by spraying with Mancozeb (2.5g/ltr.) or Copper Oxychloride (3g/ltr.) + Plantamycin or Tetracycline or Paushamycin (100 mg/l).

Harvesting, Storage and Drying

• In India it is by manual picking, but cotton picking

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How to Grow - Paddy

How to Grow

Preparation of Soil

 

• Paddy can be grown in any type of soil, which can retain moisture.
• Weeds can be avoided by preparation of the main field by ploughing, puddling and leveling land before transplantation

Sowing

• To prepare seedling in the nursery bed with 200 sq m(5 cents) area for sowing 10 kgs seed/acre for variety and 6 kg/ac for hybrid, the seedbed can be prepared through ploughing and puddling Excess water can be drained out through preparation of 50 cm wide channels on all sides.
• 20 – 25 days seedlings with 2 seedlings per hill for varieties and 1 seedling/hill for hybrid may be planted with at least 33 hills/sq m in Kharif and 44 hills/sq m in Rabi.
• For better sunlight and aeration to crop an alley of 20 cms for every 2 m of planting should be provided with a shallow depth of 2-3 cms.

Fertilizer application

• Fertilizers 50:20:20 kg NPK per acre during kharif and 60:25:25 kg NPK/acre during Rabi is generally recommended, but can be modified based on soil tests.
• 1/3rd Nit rogen fertilizers should be applied in the final puddling , approximately 30 days after planting and at the primordial initiation (60-70) days after planting. While pudding the entire phosphatic fertilizers can be applied @ 20 kg/ac during kharif and 25kg/ac during rubi.
• Potash @ 20kg/ac can be applied during pudding. In heavy soils Potash @ 20 kg/ac and in light soils & Potash @ 25 kg/ac ac can be appied. It can be applied in spilt doses along with Nitrogenous fertilizers.
• Zinc can be applied during alternative kharif season @ 20kg Znso4/ac in the final pudding before planting. In saline areas, 100 kg Zinc Sulphate or 10 kg Chelated Zinc may be applied.

Irrigation

• For growing paddy crop, it is not necessary to have a water flooded field, but there should be enough moisture in soil.
• Critical stages for irrigation are Tillering, Panicle initiation, Heading and Flowering

Crop Management

• Weed Control Weed growth can be prevented by applying 500 ml of Pretalachlor or 35 gms of Topstar/acre 2-3 days after planting or 4 kg of Butachlor + 4 kg of 2, 4 – DEE/ acre can be applied and mixed in 30 kg of sand 3-5 days after planting to prevent monocots and dicots if it is a problem.
• For direct seeded rice pre-emergence application Pendimethalin 1 ltr. or Topstar 35 gms/acre may be applied 3 days after sowing at adequate soil moisture. Pest Management – Stemborer Choloropyriphos (1.5 ml) or Monocrotophos (1.6 ml) or Phosphamidon (2.0 ml) or Acephate (1.5g) or Cartap Hydrochloride (2g)/ltr of water should be sprayed or 8 kg Cartap Hydrochloride 46 granules or 10 kg Carbofuran 36 granules can be applied. Disease mgt – Blast Triciclyzole, Kasugamycin 2 ml or ISO prothiolane 1.5 ml mixed in one litre watercan be sprayed

Harvesting, Storage and Drying

• To get best milling recovery the crop should be harvested 30 days after flowering and dried in shade.

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List of Paddy Products

Chairman participates in 6th National Seed Congress

Lucknow: The 6^th National Seed Congress was held in Lucknow last week. It dwelt on major issues related to agriculture, most important being production of genetically modified (GM) crops and high yielding variety of seeds. Mr. Akhilesh Yadav, Honorable CM of Uttar Pradesh, was the chief guest at the sixth edition of the congress which was hosted in UP for the first time.

Our Chairman Mr. M Prabhakar Rao presented a lead paper on ‘Seed Planning – Private Sector Perspective’. Appreciating India’s growth in Seed market from 2005 to 2012, Chairman suggested that conventional breeding supported by biotech tools in all crops suitable to all agro-climatic zones and improving the seed replacement rate (SRR) through farmer extension education programmes in PPP mode will help continue the momentum.

Chairman added, “India has tremendous potential to supply quality seed to international markets. This can be achieved through aggressively perusing the introduction of existing hybrids into similar agro-climatic regions like SAARC and South East Asian countries and actively taking forward the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated by Ministry of Agriculture”.

Visit of Nigerian Delegates

On Monday, a Nigerian delegation team, Mr. Damilola Eniaiyeju, Director- Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Mr. Anibe Achimugu, MD, Arewa cotton and allied products co. ltd. visited Nuziveedu Seeds’ plant at Kothur, Hyderabad. Dr. P Sateesh Kumar, Director – R&D, Nuziveedu Seeds and Mr. Ch Narayana Swamy, Plant head, welcomed the delegates and took them around our facilities including cob drying, processing and packing. The Nigerian delegates were quite impressed with the salient features of NSL’s plant. At Kothur plant, processing and packaging of field crops including Maize, Paddy, Sorghum, Pearl millet, Sunflower, Fodder Jowar and Castor is done. It also has the facility to process cotton seed.
The plant has conditioned storage facility with full power back up to ensure seeds are stored for longer periods. Seed testing lab at Kothur is equipped with full infrastructure and tested 48,000 samples per annum. We verify quality parameters of seeds such as physical appearance, moisture, physical purity, germination and vigour etc. We simultaneously test the seeds at the field for germination.

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Nuziveedu Seeds - Mustard

Mustard

Mustard (Brassica spp.), a native to temperate regions of Europe, was one of the first domesticated crops. This crop’s economic value resulted in its wide dispersal and it has been grown as a herb in Asia, North Africa, and Europe for thousands of years. Mustard has been cultivated as early as 5000 BC. Brassica (rapeseed‐mustard) is the second most important edible oilseed crop in India after groundnut and accounts for nearly 30% of the total oilseeds produced in the country. India is one of the largest rapeseed‐mustard growing countries in the world, accounting for 21.7 % and 10.7% of the total acreage and production occupying the first position in Area and second position in Production after China. The most important states growing these crops are Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Orissa, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat and West Bengal. The world production of Rapeseed/Mustard has been increasing at a rapid rate in several countries largely in response to the continuing increase in demand for edible oils and its products.

New Maize Products

   

Maize was the first major cereal crop in human civilization to be affected by hybridization. It is the most widely distributed crop of world being grown in diverse seasons and ecologies with highest production and productivity among food cereals. It is grown in about 166 countries occupying 165 mha area with production of more than 800 million tons and productivity of 5.1 tons/ha. It is used worldwide for about 3500 products of different uses as feed (61%), food (17%) and also serves as a source of basic raw material of number of industries (22%) viz., starch, ethanol, oil, alcoholic beverages, food sweeteners, pharma, cosmetics etc. No other cereal can be used in such many ways as maize.

Chairman will be heading NSAI’s governing council from 2013-2015

Mr. Rao will be heading NSAI’s governing council 2013-2015

National Seed Association of India which represents the private & public sector seeds companies announced the appointment of Mr. M Prabhakar Rao as its new president. The announcement came after the annual general meeting held on 31st July 2013 in New Delhi. Mr. Rao will be heading NSAI’s governing council 2013-2015. Mr.M Prabhakar Rao is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hyderabad based India’s largest seed company Nuziveedu Seeds Limited.

Commenting on being elected as the President of premier seed association, Mr. M Prabhakar Rao said, “I am honored to have been bestowed with such responsibility, which gives me an opportunity to work towards regulatory issues faced by seed industry, creating conducive environment for seed industry functioning and for Intellectual property rights for the seeds varieties so as to enhance R&D investments for benefit of farmers”.

The other members of NSAI’s office bearers include Mr. M. G. Shembekar, Vice President, (Ankur Seeds Pvt. Ltd.), Mr. Bhupen Dubey, General Secretary, (UPL Advanta Ltd.), Dr. K. S. Narayanaswamy, Treasurer, (GEO Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd.), Dr. K. V. Subbarao, Immediate Past President, (PHI Seeds Ltd.) among other members.

National Seed Association of India has 238 seed companies, including private and public sector companies as its members. The association facilitates consultation between the members and the Government of India, state governments and different international agencies.

About National Seed Association of India (NSAI):
The National Seed Association of India provides a forum for consultation between the Members and the concerned Ministries of Government of India, ICAR, Certification Agencies, State Governments and with different international agencies that regulates seed sector. With greater openness in the economy, the Association is gearing up for a much bigger role by hosting national and international seed conferences like Indian Seed Congress (ISC) and Asian Seed Congress of APSA and ISF and by working towards an increased role for India in the international seed trade. The private sector has strong scientific capabilities and breeding programs, comprehensive multi location testing facilities including on-farm testing of pre-commercial hybrids as per national and international testing protocols, research trial data supplemented by on-farm test data and farmer feedback on performance and preference to facilitate decisions on commercialization of new hybrids. Indian Seed industry is working towards farmer prosperity through varietal development and spreading right agronomy for yield enhancement.

Chairman elected as President of National Seed Association of India (NSAI)

National Seed Association of India (NSAI) which represents the private & public sector seeds companies announced the appointment of our beloved Chairman Mr. M Prabhakar Rao as its new president. The announcement came after the annual general meeting held on 31st July 2013 in New Delhi. Chairman will be heading NSAI’s governing council for 2013-2015.

Our Chairman said, “I am honored to have been bestowed with such responsibility, which gives me an opportunity to work towards regulatory issues faced by seed industry, creating conducive environment for seed industry functioning and for Intellectual property rights for the seeds varieties so as to enhance R&D investments for benefit of farmers”.

Dr. P Sateesh Kumar, Director, R&D, Nuziveedu Seeds and Mr. Venkateshwarlu, MD, Yaaganti Seeds, are also elected to governing council.

NSL to focus on R&D, inorganic growth via acquisitions

Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd (NSL) is the largest hybrid seed producer in the country. It is the dominant player in cotton seed segment with a 25 per cent share of the Rs 3,500-crore market. It’s seeds are used by more than 5.5 million farmers. Recently, M Prabakar Rao, chairman and managing director of Nuziveedu Seeds, was elected president of the National Seed Association of India, which is represented by 238 seed companies including private and public sector companies as its members. Prabakar Rao talks to Sanjeev Sharma about the growth of hybrid seed industry in the country and how kharif sowing has crossed record levels thereby boosting the seed industry.

Q: What is the outlook on the domestic seed industry?

A: Domestic seed market has grown at 15-20% in the past two years, which is almost double the growth experienced by other countries. Development of new varieties of seeds in the country is low and also replacement of new varieties of seeds is low as compared to rest of the world. This will change as demand goes up. Worldwide, the seed industry is a $42 billion market. Top six countries, including India, control 67% of the global market.

In terms of crops, cotton seed market size is estimated to be nearly 23% that of the seed industry. Paddy seeds dominate the market in terms of the volumes with around 50% of the market followed by wheat with 37%.

With kharif sowing crossing record levels across the country, the season proves to be promising one for the seed industry as well. Area under kharif crops, including paddy and other foodgrains, has increased by over 17% to around 750 lakh hectare till the last week of July.

Q: Traditional food crop growing areas like Punjab and Haryana are moving to cash crops. What does this mean for your business model?

A: Punjab and Haryana are facing problems like over-exploitation of water resources forcing farmers to diversify into cash crops like maize. Nuziveedu Seeds has good presence in Punjab, Haryana and UP for cotton, varietal and hybrid paddy. Apart from these states, the company intends to increase participation in government subsidy programmes in states such as Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha to market products to more farmers. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has identified seven hybrid seeds developed by Nuziveedu Seeds for paddy, maize, sorghum and pearl millet, of which five are eligible for subsidies.

Q: Has NSL expanded its product portfolio in other crops such as paddy, maize and vegetables?

A: We are focusing on non-cotton seed segments like paddy, maize and vegetables. We have also developed hybrid seeds for vegetables such as tomatoes, chillies, okra and brinjals. We intend to continue to produce these high quality products at affordable prices in order to increase our market share. Sale of these crops today contributes more than 25% of the total seeds business.

Q: How big is NSL’s infrastructure and distribution network?

A: We own 16 processing plants which are spread in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Odisha and Gujarat. The processing centres have a combined processing capacity of 148 TPH (ton per hour) and an aggregate capacity to store 79,500 metric tonne of seeds.

Q: Recently NSL implemented a PPP model with Maharashtra government. How successful has been this model?

A: We engage in collaborative research activities with various government and international organisations. The Maharashtra government along with Nuziveedu Seeds took this initiative to increase per acre yield of cotton by employing innovative crop methods like high density planting and improved agronomic practices. The project is the largest in the country covering nearly 10,000 acres. More than 3,000 farmers from the region benefitted through this project. The results have been quite encouraging. The Maharashtra government has now evinced interest in extending the project to 20,000 acres this year covering seven districts.

Q: What is NSL’s growth strategy? Any plans to expand into overseas market?

A: Our strategy rests on five pillars — consolidating leadership position in cotton; increasing market share in crops like varietal and hybrid paddy, hybrid maize and hybrid seeds for vegetables such as tomatoes and brinjal; expanding our customer and distribution base; focus on R&D activities; and pursue inorganic growth via acquisitions. Our major focus markets within India are North and East. We are also actively looking to expand our footprint in South and South-East Asia. We invest around 3 per cent of our total revenue towards R&D activities and our research facilities are spread over 815 acres.

Indian Farmer's Phase of Entrepreneurship

While there have been consistent reports of farmers committing suicides in several parts of the country – primarily because of their inability to pay debts for high end farming resources, there is also the emerging facet of the Indian farmers this time around. Interestingly, many farmers are breaking away from their bondage with the society as mere suppliers and now are becoming their own masters – in terms of adopting farmer-entrepreneurship.

On one hand there has been a growing initiative on the part of institutes like IARI (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, also called Pusa Institute) that has led the farmers to turn over a new leaf by becoming more enterprising. And this was not to happen in a jiffy. They had to create awareness, involve the farmers in producing seeds germinating into crop varieties, and above all improve the availability of quality seed while disseminating the necessary skills and technology. And this sort of initiative has boosted the farmers to make seed production a lucrative business and enrich their own lives.

Interestingly, however, such programmes have widely been extended in the northern states of the country. Majority of the northern states like Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, have benefited from the initiative. The farmers have been provided overall guidance at every stage. And all this mentoring is done free with some initial payment and royalty from private seed companies with whom IARI signed MoUs and entailing which the companies help multiplying the Pusa variety seeds. And as a result the participating farmers augmented the total output of Pusa crop variety seeds from nearly 5000 quintals in 2005-06 to over 11000 quintals in 2009-10, as reported elsewhere.

On the other hands we have stories of men like Dyaneshwar Bodke who quit their regular jobs and the prime source of income after their new-found interest in farming especially as he was inspired by yet another farmer in Sangli who made Rs. 12 lakh a year simply by growing carnations. Dyaneshwar’s initiative blossomed so well that now his farming has grown into a producing company that grows and exports exotic flowers and fruits.

These instances show that there is an emerging segment of educated farmers whose entrepreneurial inclinations have been brought to the attention of the governmental authorities to formulate policies and lay guidelines so as to enable men like Bodke and other farmers to follow their dreams. And indeed the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) have helped Bodke’s initiative and bodies like Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) have identified the urgency to promote agricultural producer companies and plans to set up more 250 companies around the country in near future.

Now what do we learn here? It does sound like a good deviation from the suicidal stories of our farmer brothers. But this has been made possible only by some solid backing who were instrumental in coaching the farmers, the supporting companies, and more so the enthusiasm of the farmers too. But the light is yet to be passed on to our brothers in rest parts of the country. But this is to happen soon, the movement must march as a renaissance and save the food-providers before they take away their own lives for once.

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Customer Reach

Given the large farming done in India Nuziveedu Seeds supply a major quantity of seed required by the farmer to produce more to feed the growing population. Therefore to meet the requirement and to increase marketing channel efficiency we have strategized multiple distribution network as follows

1. Own distribution network
2. Subsidiary distribution network
3. Partners(Co-partners and co-marketers) distribution network
   

By investing in multiple distribution network we are much close to farmers. Therefore we are in a much more better condition to cater our customer needs. Given that the large fragmented customer base as their needs are different, we take proper care to serve their needs and to satisfy each and every customer.
We also take personal interest to take care of our channel partners (distributors and dealers) for the proper functioning of distribution network.
Nuziveedu Seeds equally treat our global customer and understand their need based on different agro-climatic, agronomic practices and food habit and supply right product in right quantity and right place.

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Season Ending Ceremony in Kompally and Karimnagar Processing Plants

On 2nd July 2013 our Kompally plant season closing function took place at Mandava Cold Storage premises. Around 900 staff and workers attended the function. Staff from our other plants also attended to this function. Felicitation meeting took place after the lunch at 2.30 P.M. Shri. D.V. Rangarao presided the function and G.M. Processing Shri. Katti Lakshmi Narasimha accompanied with him. G.M.-SCM Shri. Rama Mohan Prasad gave the speech on difficulties faced during the season and timely arrangement of packing material etc and support given by our staffs to meet out these kind of challenges. Mr. T. Srinivas and Mr. Ch. Rama Krishna of logistics dept. praised that it is the team work which made possible the required materials reaching to the market at the right time and right place. Mr. V.B. Siva Prasad (Sr Manager, HR & IR) explained about provident fund and other social security benefits provided by the company to the employees. The meeting ended with vote of thanks given by Mr. K.Ravi (Sr Officer-HR).
Similarly the Annual Closing season taken place in Karimnagar Plant on 5th July, 2013. The function was addressed by Sri DV Ranga Rao (Head-SCM) and other senior executives followed by lunch and gift distribution ceremony.

Tomato - How to Grow

How to Grow

Preparation of Soil

• Tomato is grown in many types of soils from sand o heavy clay. A well-drained, fairly light fertile loam with a fair moisture holding capacity is ideal for growing a good crop of tomato. Good texture of the soil is of primary importance. Even poor and medium quality land produces good early crop, if managed properly.
• Tomato crop prefers a soil reaction ranging from pH 6.0 to 7.0. In acidic soils, liming was beneficial.
• Tomato is planted in well pulverized and leveled field.
  

Sowing

• About 400 to 500 g seeds are normally needed for raising crop in one hectare. The seed quantity varies with season and region of cultivation.
• In North India for spring-summer crop, the seeds are sown in late November and transplanted in second fortnight of January. In area where frost does not occur, only one sowing is done in July-August with transplanting in August-September. For autumn crop in North India, seeds are sown in July-August and transplanted in August-September. In hilly areas, seeds are sown in March-April with transplanting in April-May.
• Seed treatment with hydrogen peroxide (0.2 to 0.6 percent) for 2 to 4 days at 21°C gave an early emergency of seedlings by 7 to 8 days and also yielded 22.8 percent higher yield.
• Tomato is normally planted in raised beds of 60 to 75 cm width.
  

Fertilizer application

• Apply FYM at 20-25t ha-1 and fertilizers 100N, 50 P2O5, 50 K2O kg ha-1
• Per ha 150 kg N, 25kg P2O5 and
  

Irrigation

• Frequency of irrigation depends on the nature of the soil.
• Light soils need frequent (weekly) irrigations than heavy soils (10-15days).
• Plants should not be subjected to stress during flowering.
• Double ring method of irrigation is ideal. Drip irrigation greatly economises the irrigation water.
  

Crop Management

• Pest – Shoot and fruit borers- Spray carbaryl 50 W.P @ 2.5g l-1 quinalphos @ 2.0ml l-1 or endosulfan @ 2.0 ml l-1 or monocrotophos @ 1.6ml l-1 or carbaryl @ 3.0g l-1. Repeat the spraying on need basis.
• Spray dimethoate @ 2.0ml or methyl-o-dememton @ 2.0ml monocrotophos @ 1.5ml or triazophos 1.5ml l-1 of water.
• Diseases- Damping off (Tomato) -Raise the nursery in raised seed beds. Treat the seed with thiram or captan @ 3g kg-1. Drench the bed with bordeaux mixture 5ml or coper oxychloride @ 3g l- Early blight (Tomato)
  
  Spray mancozeb @ 3g l-1 twice at 15 days interval.
  
  Little leaf of brinjal (MLO disease)
  
  Remove and destroy the infected plants.
  

Harvesting, Storage and Drying

• The harvesting of fruits can be done at an interval of 5 days during the morning hours to prevent the weight loss.
• Yield: 20 – 25 t/ha
• For long distance transport, the fruits are harvested at the mature green stage when the cream colour starts at the bottom. Tomatoes for local and near by markets are harvested at the breaker or ripe stage when the blossom end turns pinkish or reddish. At the fully ripe stage, the surface is pink or red and this is suited for canning purposes. The fruits are to be cleaned, sorted and graded. The fruits are then packed in wooden boxes or cartons.
  

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Season Ending Ceremony in Kothur and Kallakal Processing Plants

The Annual Season Closing Function was held on 26.06.13 at Kothur. About 800 workers, 200 hamalies & 200 members of staff were attended the gathering.
It is graced by Shri D V RangaRao, Head, SCM . Shri V Ramesh , COO, Shri S R M Prasad, GM-SCM, Shri Katti Laxminarsimha, GM-Processing, Shri Y Sudheer Kumar, DGM-HR along with other staff members.
All the workers were actively participated & a feast was arranged. Every worker & member of staff was given a gift in token of remembrance.
A meeting was convened after the lunch program on the occasion of plant closing ceremony at Kallakal on 24.06.2013, under the Chairman ship of Sri D.V.Ranga Rao Garu; and attended by Sri P Venkat Rao, Sri SRM Prasad, Sri Y Sudheer Kumar, Sri B. Siva Prasad – and other staffs of Nuziveedu Seeds. Sri P. Venkatrao Garu, gave inspirin speech an seed production, Quality maintenance, timely supply and matters of plant running etc. Sri SRM Prasad –GM (SCM) gave speech on plant maintenance and congratulated staff for their best efforts to achieve the target in time.
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Season Ending Ceremony in Aurangabad and Bargarh Processing Plants

 

We have successfully completed Annual Function at Sawangi Plant, Aurangabad on 13.06.2013 celebrating season closing ceremony . This function was attended by around 850 to 870 members(include Labour(Male,Female),Staff of Plant R&D,Marketing,Hamalies,Security & other Guests). Special lunch was arranged for all the staff.

The Bargarh Unit of NSL Group may be called as a baby of 4 years, but it is in highly growth stage and determined to meet the challenge of vision as set by the management within very short period.

During this Kharif-2013, Bargarh has produced clean seed of about 1600 MT and dispatched in time to the different location of state as well as other states of the country. The processing season started on 8th April and closed on 10th June, 2013. To encourage the several workers as well as other employees and boost their high tempo, a ceremony was organized on 19th June, Wednesday.

Our team member served them lunch with big enthusiasm and Gifts were distributed to all the workers with a positive hope for a long association with them.

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Nuziveedu Seeds Coverage on News Channels

Nuziveedu Seeds Coverage on News Channels

Vegetables Seeds

Tomato is the world’s largest vegetable crop and known as protective food both because of its special nutritive value and also because of its wide spread production. It is one of the most important vegetable crops cultivated for its fleshy fruits and it is considered as important commercial and dietary vegetable crop. The estimated area and production of tomato for India are about 3,50, 000 hectares and 53,00,000 tons respectively. The average productivity of tomato in our country is merely 158q/ha while its productivity in USA is 588q/ha, in Greece 498q/ha, in Italy 466q/ha and 465q/ha in Spain. As it is short duration crop and gives high yield, it is important from economic point of view and hence area under its cultivation is increasing day by day. Tomato is used in preserved products like ketch-up, sauce, chutney, soup, paste, puree etc.
It is a crop which can be cultivated throughout the year, and the growing belts are also increasing day by day in Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana etc., leading to easy availability of the vegetable all over India. The state of Bihar is in the leading position in tomato production, followed by Uttar Pradesh and Orissa in terms of area under tomato crop. The maximum production and productivity have been shown by Uttar Pradeh, followed by Karnataka, Punjab, West Bengal and Assam.

Nuziveedu Seeds – Offering ripe opportunities for rich harvests

Nuziveedu Seeds is in the process of developing high quality vegetable seeds characterized by strong growing traits such as resistance to pests and disease. >Nuziveedu Seeds vegetable breeders are to bring out new innovative products for future product lines with following characters like
Botanical name of tomato is Lycopersicon esculemtun and belongs to family Lycopersicae. T. Nuziveedu Seeds serves different category of tomato seeds with various desired traits and our vegetable breeders are working rigorously to bring new innovative products for future product lines with following characters like

• Products with different maturity periods
• Long shelf life period
• Attractive shape, size and Colour
• Pulp content and TSS requirement.
• Diverse heat tolerance
• Medium to high lycopene content 

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Maize

 

Maize was the first major cereal crop in human civilization to be affected by hybridization. It is the most widely distributed crop of world being grown in diverse seasons and ecologies with highest production and productivity among food cereals. It is grown in about 166 countries occupying 165 mha area with production of more than 800 million tons and productivity of 5.1 tons/ha. It is used worldwide for about 3500 products of different uses as feed (61%), food (17%) and also serves as a source of basic raw material of number of industries (22%) viz., starch, ethanol, oil, alcoholic beverages, food sweeteners, pharma, cosmetics etc. No other cereal can be used in such many ways as maize.
In India maize has higher growth rate among food crops contributing 5% area, 2.4% production to world maize and Rs. 155 billion to Indian agriculture GDP. In India as per the latest report (2010-11), maize area, production and productivity is 8.55 mha, 21.74 mt and 2.54 tons/ha, respectively. The maize production has increased >13 times from a mere 1.73mt (1950-51) to 21.74 mt (2010-11). The demand for maize will touch 42 mt by 2025 as per the trade predictions. Maize is accounting over 9% of the total cereals and occupied third place after rice and wheat. In the World, despite India ranks 4th in both area and production of maize, its productivity is far lower than world average. With increased demand for maize as food, feed and industrial applications, it could become the important cereal in terms of area and production in the next few decades. It is predicted that by 2025, the total global maize demand will exceed the demand for wheat and rice. It is the crop of future as mentioned by the father of the Green Revolution, renowned Nobel laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug.
In India, all most all 28 states growing maize, but 60% of its area concentrated in 6 major states i.e., Andhra Pradesh, Utter Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. Maize is grown in wide range of production environments, ranging from the temperate hill zones in Himachal Pradesh in the North to the semi arid desert margins in Rajasthan in the West to the humid tropical zones in Karnataka in the South.
Keeping this in view we are emphasizing on potential breeding strategies by strictly following heterotic groups for enhancement of combining abilities while concentrating on maximization of genetic diversity. We are concentrating on intensive inbred line development with unique features. Objectives of our corn research program are

• Development of high yielding single cross hybrids suitable for both high management and rainfed situations,
• Tolerant to foliar diseases and lodging
• Medium/early maturity for kharif followed by late maturity for Rabi. 
  
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New cotton seed variety of NSL evoked good response

Public Private Partnership Project 2013-14 in Maharashtra

Encouraged by the successful response of Public Private Partnership Project in Kharif 2012-13 conducted in three districts Akola, Amravati and Buldhana in about 10,000 acres in Maharashtra, Nuziveedu Seeds has lunched the second Public Private Partnership Project in Kharif 2013-14 by getting appreciation of Govt of Maharashtra. The project will be conducted in 7 districts such as Jalgaon, Dhule, Auranagabad, Jalna, Beed, Yavatmal ,Wardha districts on 8000 farmers fields and about 20,000 acres.
Company has completed its first phase of the project of Farmers’ Training in Malegaon, Beed District on 9th June. The training program was organized in presence of Honourable Minister for Textile Mr. Prakaskdada Solanke and our representatives like Mr. Venkatram, Director and Mr. Venkatrao, VP-Mktg (Nuziveedu Seeds) and officials from NSL-sugars were also present during the training session. The Technical Session were taken by Dr. SS Beinarde and Mr. Parasnath Jaiswaal for High Density Population from Nuziveedu Seeds and members from other agri input companies like BASF for Herbicide Application and Drip Irrigation from Jain Irrigation and Netafm. Mr. Dattatray Muley, District Superintending Agriculture Officer, Beed district also addressed the farmers present in the training session.

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Nuziveeduseeds - Hybrid Paddy Seeds

Paddy

Rice is a universal crop and It is grown in all the continents except Antarctica, occupying 150 million ha, producing 573 million tons paddy with an average productivity of 3.83 tonnes/ha. Its cultivation is of immense importance to food security of Asia, where more than 90% of the global rice is produced and consumed. The cultivation of Rice goes as far back as 1500 -800 BC and finds mention in the Yajur Veda. According to historians, rice had been in cultivation in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas in Northern India, through Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Southern China. Rice is the main staple food of more than half the world as well as of India.
India is world’s leading producer of white rice, accounting for 20 % of overall production. Rice is India’s prominent crop, and staple food for the native population of eastern and southern part of the country. The country has biggest area of fertile land under rice cultivation. Nuziveedu Seeds – Prime Producer in Paddy Nuziveedu Seeds is already a master in varietal paddy production with a long list of products and the main focus of the company is now on Hybrid paddy. Research ongoing to develop new product lines suitable to different agro-climatic zones with characters like -

• Diverse grain qualities and types suitable to different categories
• Special and distinctive Taste parameters
• Varying maturity period
• Tolerance to various pests and diseases
  
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Sowing for Success

Entrepreneur magazine, Indian arm of the popular American Entrepreneur publication has featured a story on Nuziveedu Seeds titled ‘Sowing for Success’. The magazine narrates how Nuziveedu Seeds betting beyond cotton to continue on its growth curve.
Entrepreneur is India’s number one magazine for business owners. Its parent brand is 30 years old in the US with well over 3 million readers, and is also the largest selling business magazine from news-stands in the US.

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Nuziveedu Seeds - Cotton

Cotton is considered the ‘king of crops’ and is native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, and India.. The major cotton producing countries are USA, China, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Argentina, Australia, Greece, Brazil and Turkey. These countries contribute about 85% to the global Cotton production. Cotton is the most important fiber crop of the world and it is also one of the most widely grown commercial crops in India. Our country ranks among the top three cotton producers in the world, with the cultivate area being 11mha, which is approximately one quarter of the world’s cotton growing area of 43 mha. India is the second largest producer of cotton in the world after China, collectively accounting for over 21% of the global cotton production.
In India, cotton crop is grown throughout the country. However, there are nine major cotton producing states, viz. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. These states contribute about 90% to the National cotton production. Based on cotton cultivation, India is divided into three major zones viz. north zone (Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan), central zone (Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat) and south zone (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu).
Nuziveedu Seeds – A Major Player in Cotton Seed Production
Nuziveedu Seeds a corporate giant in the Indian seed industry has the largest germplasm collection of Hybrid and Bt cotton. The company is proud to have around 160 hybrids to its credit which is way ahead of its closest competitors. This accomplishment has been possible through the intensive efforts of Nuziveedu Seeds’s state of the art R&D division which has discovered many world-class hybrid seeds in cotton and is engaged in developing superior hybrids and improved variations of different products of cotton, Nuziveedu Seeds’s multi-location trial centers have been set up in different agro-climatic zones, to evaluate the adaptability of various products and screen them with reference to biotic and abiotic stresses and other desirable characters.


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Public Private Partnerships – Accelerating Agricultural Development

Public Private Partnerships are a popular type of collaboration in many sectors of the economy around the world. These partnerships may vary in nature and scope. They are not limited to bilateral collaboration between government agency and a private corporation. PPP’s especially for sustainable agricultural development can also include multi-partner structures that bring together private companies with entities such as non-governmental organizations (NGO), university research institutes and foundations.
As the world’s third largest producer of agricultural crops, India needs to take steps to improve productivity in agriculture. The Government should encourage better agronomic practices, create the right commercial, technical and regulatory environment and strengthen agricultural innovation systems like research, education, extension and infrastructure. In this direction the Government of India and some State Governments have initiated “Public Private Partnership (PPP)” concept particularly in the area of Research and Extension.
Nuziveeedu Seeds has proved that the contribution of the private sector to agricultural development goes far beyond research. As India’s largest Seed producer, the company has endeavoured to bring new products to the market and deliver value. The company has entered into Public Private Partnerships with the Governments of several states in India, for carrying out extension work and implementing its agronomic innovations.
PPP for Extension Services in Uttar Pradesh: NSPL has entered into an MOU with the government of Uttar Pradesh under Private Public Partnership (PPP mode) for carrying out extension work in the state. Under this project the company has provided extension services in 25 districts of Uttar Pradesh for paddy and maize crops. The extension work involved among other things, were Crop Demonstration, Farmers’ Training and Field Visits For Kharif season 2011-12, the project met the desired result successfully and the UP government appreciated this partnership.
Major Partnership for High Density Cotton Planting in Maharashtra: NSPL’s introduction of high density planting for cotton has found rich response in Maharashtra. The Government of Maharashtra has realized the importance of high density cotton planting to improve productivity of Cotton in Vidharbha region and sanctioned an extension program in PPP with NSPL to cover 10,000 acres with 2000 farmers in Akola, Amravati and Buldhana districts. The project is being implemented to assist poor farmers of major cotton growing districts of Vidharbha region to significantly improve productivity of their cotton crop. The project will include high density planting in 7500 acres under rain-fed conditions and 2500 acres under drip irrigation.
High Density Cotton Planting- A Boon to the Cotton Farming Community: The project is estimated to increase farmers’ yields from existing average productivity of 5 quintals / acre to a minimum of 7.5 quintals / acre under rain-fed conditions i.e. 50% increase in productivity among the selected farmers and 10 quintals / acre under drip irrigation i.e. 100% increase in productivity among the selected farmers. Farmers are being trained in groups in the use of technologies. The training programmes are conducted using POP material, Audio visual aids and demonstrations for better understanding of practices. In Akola, Buldhana and Amaravati districts, farmers have been identified and 112 farmer groups have been formed till date. 3423 farmers have been enrolled in the project from 74 villages and 4 training camps have been already conducted.
Heralding a host of benefits for the farmers: The formation of farmer groups will benefit individual farmers to share knowledge and give them better bargaining power to procure agri inputs. The farmers will be able to practice new technologies under the guidance of company’s technical personnel. They would also have timely access to inputs such as seeds, growth regulators, micronutrients etc. Moreover they will be able to get assistance for setting micro/ drip irrigation systems wherever minimum water is available. The farmers will be provided with convenient market linkage for their produce through close tie up with ginning and textile mills. All this will add to increased productivity and income for the farmers.
The usefulness of Public Private Partnerships is by no means limited to agricultural development, but they can make a major contribution in this area. Where the right partners come together in the right way, the synergies they achieve can lead to amazing results well beyond the reach of any one organization alone.
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