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SVPR 4 – A High Yielding Superior Medium Staple Cotton Variety for Summer Irrigated / Rice Fallow Tracts of Tamil Nadu

Volume : 99
Issue: Jul-sep
Pages: 424 - 426
Published: May 03, 2023
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Abstract


SVPR 4 is a high yielding superior medium staple cotton variety developed at Cotton Research Station, Srivilliputtur. It was released in the year of 2009 for summer irrigated/ Rice fallow cotton tracts of Tamil Nadu. It is a hybrid derivative of the cross between MCU 5 and S 4727. SVPR 4 cotton is robust in nature with determinant growth habit and matures in 150 days. It has recorded an average seed cotton yield of 1583 kg/ha which is 13.0 % increase over SVPR 2. Its fibre qualities are comparably superior to SVPR 2 with 27.9 mm span length and 22.5 g/ tex strength. The cotton SVPR 4 can spin 40’s counts which is the current demand of the textile Industries. It is moderately resistant to leaf hopper and tolerant to drought in summer irrigated season. Hence, SVPR 4 cotton was released as an alternate variety to replace SVPR 2 in summer irrigated cotton area and SVPR 3 in rice fallow tracts of Tamil Nadu.

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424 - 426
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Cotton SVPR 4 Rice fallow Summer irrigated
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