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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NSL Inaugurates Cod Drying and Conditioned Facility

NSL has inaugurated India’s biggest cob drying unit with a capacity of 1500MT in the month of February. Along with this, it also inaugurated 3800MT capacity conditioned storage facility at its Kothur plant near Hyderabad. With the new facility, NSL can dry wet cobs of about 375 MT/ day and the gas required for this purpose is generated by using maize shank as bio fuel with the help of Gasifier. It helps reducing the cost of drying to a great extent. With the help of extended conditioned storage facility, field crops can be stored for a period of 2 years and cotton for 7 years by maintaining required temperatures. The inauguration was attended by Mr. S R M Prasad, GM-SCM and Mr. Katti Laxminarsimha, GM-Projects, who performed pooja. Entire NSL family from Kothur and Kompally attended the event.

Seed Technology Trainees from ANGRAU Visit NSL

On 29th of January, a team of 30 trainees headed by Smt. J Jhansi Rani, Professor, Seed Technology Division from Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar visited Kothur plant to have a practical exposure on “Seed Quality Assurance for Better Productivity”. They were briefed about all the activities at the plant i.e Cob drying facilities, Processing, Packing, Cold storage facilities and Seed Testing by Mr. Ch Narayana Swamy, AGM-QA & 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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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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