Proceedings a/the 9'h International Symposium on Buckwheat, Prague 2004 Increasing Production and Productivity of Buckwheat in Uttaranchal

Buckwheat is grown in the mid and high altitude areas of Indian Himalaya for grain and leafy vegetable. In order to identify a stable variety suitable for these areas, stability parameters of seven improved varieties of buckwheat were estimated under six hill environments for four traits viz., days to flowering, days to maturity, plant height and grain yield. The study revealed that the improved variety, Sangla B 1 was the ideally adapted variety for hill environments in Uttaranchal. it was, therefore, selected for seed production programme. Further, in order to disseminate the variety, front line demonstrations were laid out at 93 farmers ' field covering an area of>3.00 ha. An yield enhancement of 30 % was recorded in these demonstrations. Large scale adoption of the stable variety is expected to enhance the production and productivity ofbuckwheat in Uttaranchal State ofIndia