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  • Two Top-Performing Vegetable Varieties From Himachal Get National Recognition

    Two Top-Performing Vegetable Varieties From Himachal Get National Recognition

    Two vegetable varieties developed by the Department of Vegetable Sciences at Dr Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry at Nauni have been recognised as top-performing varieties for their consistent performance at the national level. The temperate carrot variety called Solan Shresth and the French bean variety Lakshmi ban were officially released by the Central Variety Release Committee (CVRC) in New Delhi.

    The performance of these varieties was presented by Dr Rajesh Kumar, Project Coordinator of the All India Coordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops (AICRP VC), at the national release event. Both Lakshami and Solan Shresth were praised for their outstanding performance across multiple regions, the university said in a statement.

    The Lakshami bean variety has been recommended for cultivation in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand, while Solan Shresth is suitable for parts of Punjab and Bihar.

    These varieties were developed by the university in 1992 and 2016, respectively, and tested under the AICRP on vegetable crops from 2017 and 2019 before being approved for national release.

    Ramesh Kumar Bhardwaj, breeder and Principal Investigator at the Solan Centre of AICRP (VC), explained that both varieties performed consistently over three years of testing. Their results were recognised at the 39th and 41st Annual Group Meetings of AICRP held in Varanasi and Srinagar.

    Scientists Sandeep Kansal, D. K. Mehta, Kuldeep Thakur, and Rakesh have contributed significantly to the maintenance and mass multiplication of seeds for these varieties.

    Director of Research, Sanjeev Chauhan, highlighted the qualities of Solan Shresth, a carrot variety known for its long, attractive, orange-coloured, cylindrical roots with self-cores. It matures early, is smooth with non-hairy roots, and is rich in beta-carotene.

    Solan Shresth is resistant to common diseases and pests, and its average root weight is 255-265 g, yielding 225-275 quintals per hectare of marketable produce.

    Similarly, Lakshami, the French bean cultivar, produces two to three long, attractive, stringless green pods per node, maturing in 65 to 70 days. It offers a high marketable yield of 150-200 quintals per hectare, with mature seeds that are white with light yellow stripes.

    University Vice Chancellor Rajeshwar Singh Chandel praised the contributions of the scientists, noting that the Solan Centre of AICRP has brought great recognition to the university.

    He emphasised that the success of these varieties, particularly in terms of their excellent performance and cost-effectiveness, will greatly benefit small and marginal farmers. Both varieties are open-pollinated, making them more accessible to farmers compared to expensive hybrid seeds.

    (Disclaimer: Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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  • NAWIS wants more recognition for women in sports, national honours for Paralympic medalists – Blueprint Newspapers Limited

    NAWIS wants more recognition for women in sports, national honours for Paralympic medalists – Blueprint Newspapers Limited

    The leadership of the National Association for Women in Sports (NAWIS) has called on the Federal Ministry of Sports and other relevant authorities in the country to prioritise and invest more in Para-Sports, if Nigeria is to sustain its rating as a powerhouse, in para sports for the foreseeable future.

    The National President of NAWIS, Professor Adefunke Suleiman, made this call, while reserving praise for Team Nigeria athletes to the just concluded 2024 summer Paralympics in Paris, France.

    In a statement released to the media by the spokeswoman of the organisation, Oluwafunmike Kanjuni, the NAWIS helmswoman also celebrated six of the podium athletes for winning seven of the medals – 2 Gold, 3 Silver, and 2 Bronze medals Nigeria won in Paris, to place overall 40th at the games.

    The heroins are Folashade Oluwafemiayo, who won Gold in Para-Powerlifting + 86 kg; Esther Nworgu who got a Silver medal in Para-Powerlifting 41 kg; and Bose Omolayo who also won Silver in Para-Powerlifting 79 kg.

    Others are Onyinyechi Mark who won the Para-Powerlifting 61 kg Gold; Flora Ugwunwa, winner of the Women’s Javelin throw F54 Silver medal; and Mariam Eniola Bolaji Badminton Women’s Singles SL3 Bronze medalist.

    The only man that medaled at the Paralympics is Isau Ogunkunle who won Bronze in Table Tennis Singles Class 4, also received a thumbs up from the NAWIS leadership.

    Also commenting on the feat performed by the Team Nigeria Para-Athletes, the 1st Vice President of NAWIS, Deputy Comptroller of Immigrations, Nkechi Ezeugwu, said with what was achieved in Paris, where Nigeria’s two Gold medals were won by women, the dominance of women in Nigeria’s sports should be given their rightful dues, and no longer taken for granted.

    “At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, all the 12 Gold medals won by Nigeria, came via women [one was eventually chalked-off after a doping infraction]. At present Tobi Amusan (100m Hurdles) is Nigeria’s first and only World Champion and record holder in track and field,” she said.

    The former National Grade 1 football referee added; “even at the Olympics, the women – Amusan, Ese [Brume], Blessing [Oborodudu] and Odunayo Adekuroye, and star girl Favour Ofili represented our best and elusive chances of winning medals,” Mrs. Ezeugwu asserted.

    Like the President, Mrs. Ezeugwu believes the time has come for more women to be included in the Sports ecosystem, including the highest decision and policy making organs, for the gains made in recent years, to be sustained and improved upon.

    She also echoed the wishes of the NAWIS President, that the gladiators that won medals for Nigeria at the Paralympics be handsomely rewarded, and given national honours awards.







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  • Jordan Chiles says Olympic gymnastics controversy took away ‘the recognition of who I was’

    Jordan Chiles says Olympic gymnastics controversy took away ‘the recognition of who I was’

    For 14 seconds, Jordan Chiles paused and looked down to collect her thoughts and emotions.

    The question — about what Chiles felt she lost when the International Olympic Committee stripped her of her bronze medal in the Olympic women’s gymnastics floor exercise — forced her to stop mid-answer. The audience at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit in New York applauded her as she regrouped and held the microphone back up to her mouth.

    Holding back tears, Chiles said she lost more than a bronze medal through the controversy that dominated the end of last month’s Paris Games. The controversy “wasn’t about the medal,” she said, but other realities that made her feel “stripped.”

    “The biggest thing that was taken from me was the recognition of who I was, not just my sport, but the person I am,” Chiles said.

    “It’s about my skin color,” Chiles added. “It’s about the fact there were things that have led up to this position of being an athlete.”

    The on-stage interview Wednesday — which occurred before Chiles appeared at MTV’s Video Music Awards at night — marked the gymnast’s most extensive comments since the IOC said it would reallocate Chiles’ bronze to Romania’s Ana Bărbosu following an appeal by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.

    At the floor final on Aug. 5, Chiles originally finished fifth but rose to third after her coach, Cecile Landi, submitted a successful inquiry to raise her score by one-tenth of a point. Five days later, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Landi’s inquiry should be invalidated because it came four seconds after the one-minute window for such an appeal. After the ruling, the International Gymnastics Federation dropped Chiles to fifth, and the IOC reallocated the medal. USA Gymnastics has said it is appealing the CAS decision to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.

    Chiles said she felt “left in the dark” and unsupported during the controversy. She felt her voice wasn’t heard during the appeal process and compared her emotions to 2018, when she said an emotionally and verbally abusive coach caused her to lose her love for gymnastics.

    “No one was listening to the fact that there are things that we have in place,” Chiles said. “There are things that we have that should’ve been seen but weren’t taken for realization.”

    USA Gymnastics has argued that it has video evidence showing Landi made the appeal 47 seconds after Chiles’ score was posted, 13 seconds before the inquiry window closed, and that it did not have enough time to properly make its case to CAS.

    Chiles previously referred to the decision as “unjust.”

    “(It) comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey,” Chiles said in a post on X on Aug. 15. “To add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially driven attacks on social media are wrong and extremely hurtful.”

    Almost a month later, Chiles maintains that she and her coach followed the rules and did “everything that was totally and completely right” in the floor exercise competition.

    “I made history and I will always continue to make history,” said Chiles, who won gold in the Olympic women’s team competition.

    Chiles, who will return to UCLA for the upcoming college gymnastics season, received a bronze clock at the VMAs as a gift from Flavor Flav, who promised to make her one after her medal was stripped.


    Chiles receives a bronze clock from Flavor Flav on Wednesday. (Noam Galai / Getty Images for MTV)

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