{"id":1395,"date":"2015-01-24T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2015-01-24T16:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:58:26","slug":"emerging-techniques-and-research-to-increase-yield-in-castor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/01\/emerging-techniques-and-research-to-increase-yield-in-castor\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Techniques and Research to Increase Yield in Castor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing the yield of castor from 1 T\/hectare per year (the average right now in India) to something much higher is a highly desirable outcome, but not very easy.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to overcome yield challenge in castor industry is to concentrate more on research and development (R&amp;D) area.<\/p>\n<p>Many techniques are emerging in R&amp;D sector to increase the yield of castor. These include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hybrids: <\/strong>Selection of Hybrids to increase yield, branching, non-shattering and high oil content. e.g.- HC1, HC2,\u20268 also, advanced hybrids like TSP 10R VP1 lata, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cross Pollination: <\/strong>Under natural conditions, cross pollination in castor can exceed 80%, but the actual level of cross pollination is dependent on both genotype and environmental conditions. Germplasm storage under cryogenic conditions keeps up the viability of seeds even after 30 days<\/li>\n<li>Other techniques like enriching the soil with zinc content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing the yield of castor from 1 T\/hectare per year (the average right now in India) to something much higher is a highly desirable outcome, but not very easy. The best way to overcome yield challenge in castor industry is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/01\/emerging-techniques-and-research-to-increase-yield-in-castor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[206,144,40],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-cultivation","tag-castor-research","tag-castor-seed","tag-castor-yields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}