- Develop high yielding CMS hybrids and varieties with high seed oil content, inbuilt tolerance/resistance to aphids , Alternaria leaf blight, and wilt and for irrigated and rainfed areas.
- Evolve early maturing and non-spiny varieties with desirable agronomic features (insect-pests and disease resistance, high seed coil content, etc.) suited to different non-traditional areas and situations.
- Exploit hybrid vigour using the available male sterility systems, perfection of seed production technologies and development of workable CMS system.
- Identify productive and profitable inter and sequential cropping systems for all potential areas of safflower cultivation.
- Develop integrated insect pest and disease management modules
- Production of breeder seed of latest released varieties and hybrids and conduct FLD in farmers field
(AICRP-Safflower)
