Agricultural Research Station, Sriganganagar
About the Centre
Irrigated North Western Plain Zone (I b) comprising of Sriganganagar and Hanumangarh districts is situated in the North-Western part of India between 28.4o to 33.6o N latitude and 72.3o to 75.3o E longitude and Agricultural Research Station, Sriganganagar is situated at 175.6 meters height above mean sea level. The states of Punjab and Haryana forms North-Eastern boundary, Churu and Bikaner districts of Rajasthan forms South boundary and International boarder of Pakistan forms North-North Western boundary of the Zone. Zone I b covers a geographical area of 20.6 lac hectares in which about 15.5 lac hectare is net cultivated area and 50 per cent of net cultivated area is irrigated. Gang, Bhakra and Indira Gandhi Canals are the main source of irrigation in the region underground water is brackish and not fit for crops. Soils of this zone are mostly iight to medium textured, calcareous, well drained, deep having low nitrogen, low to medium phosphorous and medium to high potassium. The major crops grown in this region are cotton, groundnut, clusterbean and pulses during kharif and wheat, chickpea, mustard and sugarcane during rabi.
The Zone I b has extreme climatic conditions with scorching summer, cold winter and mild rainy season. Dust storms during summer, frosty winter nights and ground fog are some of the typical features of weather hazards. The rainfall is relatively low in western part as compared to eastern part of the zone. The mean rainfall in the zone is 32.6 cm of which 75 per cent is received in the months of July to September. The temperature of this zone fluctuates from as low as 1.0o C to as high as 48.0o C. January is the coldest and June is the hottest month of the year.
The single running sugar factory of Rajasthan is situated in the zone. The canal water is available to grow the sugarcane crop in the zone.
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Achievements
- Screened out six promising varieties of sugarcane viz. Co 05009, Co 6617, Co7717 and CoS 95255 (Early maturing) and CoS 767 and CoH 99 (Mid late maturing).
- Seed treatment with 0.1% Carbendazim has been recommended.
- The foliar spray of 1% FeSo4 thrice in weekly interval at vegetative stage significantly increased the cane yield as compare to sole application of NPK.
- Soil application of zinc sulfate @ 25 kg/ha significantly affected the cane yield of plant crop.
- Inter cropping of two rows of green gram in spring planted sugarcane found more beneficial as compared to sole crop of sugarcane.
- In sugarcane 40 kgS/ha through gybsum is recommended.
- For weed control in sugarcane, herbicide metribuzin 75 WP @ 1 kg/ha (Pre-enorgence) has been recommended.
- The POP for sugarbeet cultivation has been developed.
- Technology developed for preparation of powdered distember from sugarbeet waste.
- Developed the technology of converting beet pulp (by product of sugarbeet) in to jam for domestic use and concentrate for animal feed.
- New processing technology was recommended to improve the keeping quality of molasses (particularly stabilization of PH) for production of vitamin ‘B’ complex.
- Under Network project on development of Agro-Techniques for tropicalized sugarbeet in India, eleven sugarbeet varieties were tested for root yield, quality and ethanol production. Sugarbeet hybrid variety shubhra produced significantly highest root and gross sugar yield. The variety shubhra also recorded highest elthanol percentage (3.81%).