Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute (RARI), Durgapura, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Milestones in Research

HISTORICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

	Triple dwarf wheat- Lal Bahadur

	First salinity tolerant wheat- Kharchia 65

	First dwarf barley mutant in world - RDB 1

	First salinity tolerant barley- Bilara 2

	First nematode resistant barley - Rajkiran

GLORIOUS SUCCESS

	A wonder wheat - Raj 3077

	Heat tolerant wheat- Raj 3765

	India's first CCN resistant wheat- Raj Molya Rodhak 1

	First Ug 99 (Stem rust race) resistant wheat- Raj 4120

	A unique barley- RD 2552

	First two-rowed malt barley- RD 2668

	India's first dual purpose barley- RD 2715

	First rainfed double podded chickpea- RSG 888

	First rainfed as well as irrigated chickpea- RSG 931

	First late sown chickpea- RSG 963

	First drought tolerant chickpea- RSG 973

	First Kabuli chickpea in the state- RSGK 6

	High yielding, dual purpose, disease resistant bajra hybrid- RHB 173

	Unbranched early maturing clusterbean- RGC 1066

	First white seeded cowpea- RC 101

	Green fleshed, sweet with pleasant fragrance muskmelon- Durgapura madhu

	Saffron fleshed water melon- Durgapura kesar

	First copper-red, mild pungent onion of the state- RO 1

TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION

	Advance planting of groundnut

	Management of problematic soils through application of gypsum

	Methodology of preparing good quality enriched vermicompost

	Pheromone technology for control of whitegrubs

	Varietal characterization through DNA finger printing