Nandini Nimbkar

Nimbkar agricultural research institute

A study was carried out on a non-spiny hybrid safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) NARI-NH-1 for maximization of flower yield by altering the agronomic practices viz., dates of sowing, fertilizer levels and plant spacings. The study showed that the differences due to sowing dates, fertilizer levels and plant spacings were significant for flower and...

Safflower crop is an excellent oilseed crop owing to health benefits and quality attributes of its oil. Enhancing productivity assumes specific significance in the crop as it is cultivated by small and marginal farmers of rainfed agro-ecologies. The productivity of safflower has remained stagnated at around 600 kg/ha despite the availability of sev...

As a result of scarcity and deteriorating quality of drinking water especially in rural India, more attention is being paid to rainwater harvesting. A very simple and low cost drinking water technology (DWT) has been developed which uses appropriate rainwater harvesting methodology and solar purification. The costliest item in DWT is the storage ta...

Sweet sorghum (SS) is one of the varieties of sorghum having stalks with high sugar content and is grown primarily for forage, silage and syrup production. SS syrup is a high antioxidant food material produced by concentrating its sugary juice. SS has been mostly used in India for ethanol production, but demand for its syrup is growing. This articl...

Poster presented at the International Leucaena Conference, 1‒3 November 2018, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Keynote paper presented at the International Leucaena Conference, 1‒3 November 2018, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.Since its introduction to India in 1976 Leucaena leucocephala ssp. glabrata has spread rapidly, especially in the last couple of decades, mainly due to its use as either firewood or pulpwood. Use of its foliage for feeding livestock...

The multipurpose nature of safflower, that is, producing natural coloring, medicine, and poly or monounsaturated fats, coupled with varietal development for yield, oil, and resistance to pests and diseases in addition to its drought tolerance have contributed to its sustained cultivation over a period of 4000 years. Under changing production scenar...

Cenchrus ciliaris and Stylosanthes seabrana for grassland development in semi-arid areas of Maharashtra nandini nimbkar, nimbkar agricultural research institute, phaltan, India B. V. Nimbkar, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute, Phaltan, India Keywords: Semi-arid, Stylosanthes, Cenchrus, Grassland Introduction: A high proportion of grazing land...

because of its known drought-tolerance nature Materials and Methods (Rooney et a/. 2007; Ko~ar et a/. 2013). Previous Plant material and experimental desig! research showed that ethanol yield of -300 L t1 is Sixteen sorghum genotypes comprising possible from dry stover of cereal crops or sugar-landrace germplasm, two postrainy (rab/) cane bagasse (...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) has the potential to yield food, feed, fibre and biofuel. In view increasing demand for alternate energy in India and around the world, sorghum biomass is projected as alternate feedstock for second generation (2G) biofuel production. The objectives of this investigation were (1) to quantify the biomass potenti...

Waterborne infectious diseases are transmitted primarily through contamination of the water sources with excreta of humans and animals. The water treatment technologies available are fairly costly and not sustainable. Solar energy can be used effectively for sterilizing drinking water during clear and partially cloudy days. However, during mostly c...

Sweet sorghum—a local fodder with great potential - Volume 1 Issue 2 - Chanda Nimbkar, Nandini Nimbkar, B. V. Nimbkar

The derivatives of an interspecific cross between Carthamus palaestinus (wild species) X Carthamus tinctorius (cultivated species) showed exomorphic variations such as plants with flattened stems having a fasciated main capitulum forming a semi- circular structure of two to three capitula fused together. The other capitula of the fasciated plants w...

The antifungal activity of aqueous extracts of seven plant species, viz. bulbs of Garlic (Allium sativum Linn.) and leaves of Datura (Datura metel Linn.), Lantana (Lantana camara Linn.), Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus hybrid), Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.), Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus G. Don) and Holy basil (Ocimum sanctum Linn.) agains...

Based on research carried out in the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), elsewhere in India and around the world some important issues for production of safflower in India have been discussed. It is concluded that safflower can regain its popularity if its exact niche is identified and its flowers are exploited to the fullest extent.

The research work on sweet sorghum carried out at the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) during last twenty-five years has been summarized. American lines were crossed with a local Indian fodder/grain variety to produce varieties with a juicy stalk and good quality grain. Further breeding was carried out to produce varieties and hybrids...

This paper presents pioneering developmental work on syrup production from sweet sorghum. A hybrid sweet sorghum 'Madhura' has been developed which produces excellent syrup. This paper details the agronomy and the juice characteristics of this hybrid. Protocols for making excellent syrup from sweet sorghum are also outlined. Finally an economic ana...

In the low rainfall tract of Western Maharashtra, the degraded area that can be called a desert in the making is 2.28 million ha out of a total of 5.7 million ha or 40% of the area. The main causes of this desertification are overcultivation coupled with deforestation and overgrazing. The problem is made more acute by the increasing human and anima...

This study aims at analysing the meteorological data collected by Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) since 1983. The main objectives were to provide average figures and curves of Phaltan weather, and to identify possible trends since 1983, especially warming. Results show that there is indeed a clear warming trend, but it seems to be in...

Safflower wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. carthami is one of the major diseases responsible for a substantial loss in yield of the crop. The pathogen being mainly soil-borne is quite difficult to manage using the conventional methods and so the development of resistant varieties seems to be the only option. During 2006-07 winter season a sc...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is affected by a number of diseases. Though root-rot caused by Rhizoctonia bataticola is of minor importance, it is sporadic in some areas and as it forms a disease complex with wilt, is difficult to manage. The present investigation deals with the biological control of Macrophomina phaseolina-the pycnidial stage...

During the course of development of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in safflower, in winter 2003-04 the evaluation of some CMS-based sib-mated crosses and their corresponding parents showed complete male sterility. To examine the causes of male sterility in them, leftover seeds of all the entries were sown during summer 2004. Evaluation of all the...

Variability in flower yield and its components and seed yield was assessed in spiny and non-spiny genotypes to know the extent of diversity for these traits in safflower. High estimates of genotypic and phenotypic coefficients of variation and heritability estimates coupled with high genetic advance as percent of mean were obtained for flower yield...

The genotype 238-14-2 and derivatives of an interspecific cross [C. palaestinus X C. tinctorius] produced plants with cyto-exomorphic variations. The genotype 238-14-2 produced fused peripheral flowers in the capitula in addition to twin-embryo seeds and plants with higher ploidy levels at high frequency. The derivatives of the interspecific cross...