Visit to RARI

Sep 09, 2025


A visit cum hands-on-experience tour was arranged to Rajasthan Agricultural Research Institute, Durgapura Jaipur for the benefit of B.Sc.(Hons.) Agriculture III semester students.

The tour was arranged as the students of the above class offer a course on Plant Breeding.

The students reached the site, where they were introduced to Dr. Sailesh Kumar Jain, Professor and Head, Division of Genetics, RARI, Durgapura. Later they were taken around the Fields of pearl millet and groundnut where they were shown different types of breeding material, male sterile lines and their maintenance, development of inbred lines and were given demonstration of crossing techniques in both the crops.