HAU’s new oat variety to be released in South

HISAR: A new variety of oats HFO 427 developed at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University HAU has been identified for release in southern parts of the country

Updated At : 05:37 AM Sep 28, 2018 IST

HFO 427 variety of oats developed by agriculture scientists of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar.

Tribune News Service

Hisar, September 27

A new variety of oats — HFO 427 — developed at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (HAU) has been identified for release in southern parts of the country.

Vice-Chancellor KP Singh on Thursday said the new variety was better in yield and nutritional quality. The Varietal Identification Committee of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had identified this variety for cultivation in the southern states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, he said.

The variety has been developed by a team of scientists of the forage section of the university, which comprised DS Phogat and Yogesh Jindal, in collaboration with Satpal and Jayanti Tokas.