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Indian Journal of
Agricultural Research
Print ISSN: 0367-8245
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Indian Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 53 issue 1 (february 2019) : 25-32

One decade of PPV&FRA’s functioning: Crop and institution wise performance and implications

Rajesh K. Rana, Renu Martolia, Suresh Pal
1ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy, DPS Marg, Pusa-110 012, New Delhi, India.
Cite article:- Rana K. Rajesh, Martolia Renu, Pal Suresh (2019). One decade of PPV&FRA’s functioning: Crop and institution wise performance and implications. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research. 53(1): 25-32. doi: 10.18805/IJARe.A-5025.

ABSTRACT

At the time of this study 2270 varieties were registered (about 18%) by the PPV&FRA out of 12691 the applications filed by research organisations, private companies, farmer groups, NGOs and individuals. Large proportion of registered varieties were Extant-varieties (40%), Farmers-varieties (37%) and Extant varieties-of-common-knowledge (10%) while the proportion of New-varieties and Essentially-derived-varieties was considerably low. About 62% applications were under examination or DUS testing. Public-sector (933), including ICAR (718), led varietal registration followed by farmers (832) and private-sector (505). The ratio of varietal registrations to the filed applications was quite high in case of cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton while this ratio was dismally low in case of spices and vegetables. Capacity expansion of PPV&FRA, including the DUS testing centres, was very strongly realized for making functioning of the authority more robust and better.  

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