Soyabean
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Context
- Soyabean prices have crashed by close to 50% within a month in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, the top soyabean producing states of the country leading to farmers’ protests across the soyabean growing states.
Soybean
- Soybean grows well in warm and moist climate.
- A temperature of 26 to 30°C appears to be the optimum for most of the varieties.
- Soil temperatures of 15.5°C or above favor rapid germination and vigorous seedling growth.
- A lower temperature tends to delay the flowering.
- In 2020, Brazil overtook the United States as the leading soybean producing country.
- Production of soybean in India is dominated by Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh which contribute 89 per centof the total production.
MACS 1407
- Indian scientists recently developed a new Soy Bean variety called the “MACS 1407”.
- It is a high yielding varietythat gives 39 quintals per hectare.
- The new variety takes only 104 days to mature and 43 days for 50% flowering.
- The seeds have 41% protein and 19.81% oil content.
- The stem of the new Soybean variety is thick. This provides higher pod insertion, which is, till seven centimetres.
- It has good resistance for pod shaking. This makes it highly suitable for mechanical harvesting.
- Their germinability is high.
- The variety is best suited for the rain fed regions of North East India.
- It is resistant to pestssuch as leaf miner, leaf roller, girdle beetle, stem fly, white fly, aphids and defoliators.
- It is resistant to vagaries of monsoon.
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