Dr. N V Naidu of Agriculture University visits NSL Seeds’ facility

Dr. N V Naidu, Director of Seeds, Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University, Hyderabad visited NSL Seeds’ Kothur plant recently. Mr. S R M Prasad, GM, Supply Chain Management, NSL Seeds, gave them

an understanding of plant activities. Dr Naidu, has seen the cob drying activity, processing activity through Cimbria machine and online packing activity etc. Mr. Prasad taken the visitors though the conditioned storage facilities. Dr Naidu was quite happy to see such a large infrastructure and seed conditioning activities at NSL.

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Cotton : NCS-207 Mallika Bt 2

Plant Height	:	Very Tall
Distinguishing Morphological Characters	:	Open, Big light green leaves, 2 – 3 Monopodia, 18 – 20 sympodia
Days to 50% flowering	:	50-60
Maturity Group	:	Medium
Reaction to Major Pests	:	Resistant to American Bollworm, Pink Bollwom and Spotted Bollworm Tolerant to sucking pests, Jassids and Whitefly
Petal & Pollen Colour and Spot	:	Cream petal, Yellow pollen, petal spot absent
Boll Shape & Size	:	Ovate & Very Large.
Agronomic Features	:	Responds to added fertilizers
Quality of Produce	:	Ginning 35 – 36%, Staple Length: > 32.5 mm,Strength: 21 – 24, Mic: 3.0-3.9
Reaction to Stresses	:	Suitable to varied agro-climatic conditions
Special Features / USP’s	:	Tolerance to Jassids, Wider adaptability and long staple fibre

Visit of Agricultural Scientists Team From ANGRAU

In the month of March 2014, a team Agricultural Scientists headed by Dr A Padmasree, Scientist and Head-SRTC from Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar visited Kothur plant to have a practical exposure Seed Processing and Packing. They were briefed about all the activities at the plant i.e. Cob drying facilities, Processing, Packing, Cold storage facilities and Seed Testing by Sri S R M Prasad, GM-SCM, Sri Ch Narayana Swamy, AGM-QA , Sri K Krishna Murthy, Sr Manager-Admin & Sri U Madhusudhan, Dy Manager-QA.
The team felt that it was a great experience to go through all the activities as it has given them the practical exposure of Seed Production and has gained knowledge about cob drying, storage conditioned etc.

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Visit of INCOTEC delegates to Kothur

INCOTEC delegates team including Ms. Melissa Mocking, Research Technology Specialist, Netherlands & Dr Ma

nish Patel, Executive Director, India, Ahmedabad visited Kothur plant on 5th March 2014. They were accompanied by S R M Prasad, GM-SCM & Sri Ch Nageswara Rao, AGM-P&P, who explained all the seed processing activities like Cleaning, drying, Seed testing, chemical treatment and packing.
At Kothur, Seed is coated by using various polymers, insecticides and fungicides to protect from the soil or seed born diseases. They also visited the conditioned storage unit where the seed is kept viable by maintain the required temperature and humidity. They are very much delighted with the facilities at the kothur plant.

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