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A MEDIUM. DURATION HIGH YIELDING RAGI STRAIN CO 12 (Eleusine coracana GARTN.) FOR TAMIL NADU

Abstract

Ragi is an important cereal crop among the farming community of Tamil Nadu next in the order of priority of Sorghum and Pearl Millet. The strains so far cultivated in Tamil Nadu though high yielding were of shorter duration group and more prone for the infections of blast and had the risk of being trapped in September rains at harvest stage. Hence the necessity. identification and elucidation of an ideal medium duration strain of Ragi Viz, Ragi Co 12 (TNAU:9) are discussed in detail in this paper.

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