Nuziveedu Navaneeth cotton hybrid

Navaneeth (NCS-929) BG-II is a short-duration Bt cotton hybrid from Nuziveedu Seeds Limited. It is marketed as suitable for a single-pick harvest that escapes the peak pink-bollworm window and frees the field for an immediate rabi crop.

Key characteristics

Manufacturer: Nuziveedu Seeds Limited.
Product code: NCS-929.
Trait: Bollgard-II (Bt Cotton Bg Ii).
Key claim: short-duration, single-pick maturity for pink-bollworm escape.
Tolerances: drought tolerance and sucking-pest tolerance claimed.

Cultivation

A short-duration single-pick crop is sown within the recommended window (see Cotton Delayed Sowing Ipm) and terminated by November-December to break the Pink Bollworm cycle. The short cycle dovetails with double-cropping systems (Cotton Double Cropping Systems) in which rabi maize, jowar or wheat follows cotton on the same field. Standard package-of-practice nutrition and weed management apply (Cotton First Dose Fertilizer, Cotton Weed Management).

Pest profile

The Bollgard-II trait controls the lepidopteran bollworm complex. Because Pink Bollworm has developed field resistance to Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab, control depends substantially on the short-duration escape strategy and on supporting IPM (pheromone trapping, refuge maintenance, Trichogramma releases). Manufacturer literature also claims tolerance to the sucking-pest complex (Sucking Pest Complex Cotton).

Adoption and use

NCS-929 sits within Nuziveedu's cotton portfolio alongside Aasha, Aadhya, Siri, Talent and Vinay. It is sold in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra through dealer networks. Independent CICR/AICRP performance data is not separately indexed; product claims anchor to the manufacturer and to the seed-portal listing.

References

Navaneeth NCS 929. Nuziveedu Seeds product page (Desikheti).
Nuziveedu Seeds - Fiber Crops portfolio. Nuziveedu Seeds.