Vivek Sharma. Regional Manager

UPL - Punjab

Area Under over all Punjab is increasing under Spring Corn and almost reached at 800 mt… PHI is the leader followed by Monsanto as well as Kaveri seeds and others, We were still struggling in this segment and with the efforts of UPL

ADVANTA technology team gave this hybrids to us which has given good competition to the existing market leader….

Team of our region has started CORN 746 CROP shows to farmers as well as trade to explore it as it is the saying that “JO DIKHTA HAI VO BIKTA HAI “ So, Team

Hoshiarpur territory yesterday organised one Crop show on it in the field of Master Mohan lal ( our Nutrifeed Master from Vill. Jatt Pur distt. Hoshiarpur) Main High

lights were as under, v Almost 50 progressive farmers, 6 near by distributors as well as 12 retailers

seen the crop, its live performance …. v Competition was with MONSANTO 9108 hybrid…. v Crop was sown on 11th Feb means aprox. as of now 115 days and aprox. Will

take 10 more days for complete maturity….

Few Observations at this stage :

Attribute PAC -746 DK – 9108… Monsanto

Duration aprox.. days 125-130 120-125

No. Of Lines of Cob 18-20 16-18

No. of Grains in Line 47 - 50 40-42

Shank of Cob Thin Thin

Cob Placement At 4-5 feet At 3-4 feet

Colour Orange flint Yellow

At this stage look wise 746 is beating the competition on all angles, but still after 10 days we will more clear from exact figures….of yield data and other attributes…. All trade person appreciated the field & Cob size like any thing and even bring the cobs with them to display on their counters……..

Crop show was full day show, & we also visited 334 ( S.F ) field as well as

NUTRIFEED field & team started displaying the NUTRIFEED live on counters…..