Notification of crop varieties and registration of germplasm : Indian Dill, NRCSS AD-2

Abstract

Indian dill (Anethum sowa Roxb.ex Flem) popularly
called as sowa due to the presence of dillopiole is
mostly grown for seeds (botanically fruits) as a
commercial spice crop and find its use as an antispasmodic, anti-flatulent and carminative in
pharmacological industry. The dill crop is mostly grown
on marginal and sub-marginal lands, where input use
depends on the resource and management capacity
on field scale with local varieties. Consequently, its
full yield potential is not realized under arid to semiarid agro-climatic conditions. The productivity of dill
(sowa) in India is quite low (480 kg/ha) as against the
potential of 1800 kg/ha. The National Research Center
on Seed Spices (NRCSS), Ajmer has succeeded in
development of first ever high yielding variety (NRCSS
AD-2) of dill with high dillapiole content, for arid and
semi-arid agro-climate. ‘NRCSS AD 2 (Sel. AD-01-6)
has been developed through mass selection based
on progeny performance from Nagaur Local. The
selection AD-01-6 was identified by the XVII All India
Co-ordinated Research Project on Spices as NRCSS
AD 2 and released by State Varietal Release
Committees of Rajasthan vide notification No. 3-43/
2014-SD-IV dated 1.1.16. The 31st Subcommittee
meeting has approved the release of this variety for
cultivation in the state and Ministry of Agriculture and
Farmers Welfare, India accepted for notification of this
variety in 24th Central Variety Release and Notification
Committee meeting held on 22 September, 2016. This
variety has been registered at NBPGR with IC
620541.