New Delhi: Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday launched two genome-edited rice varieties - DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) and Pusa DST Rice 1 developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) at Bharat Ratna C. Subramaniam Auditorium in the national capital.
These varieties have the potential to bring about revolutionary changes in terms of higher production, climate adaptability, and water conservation.
Highlighting benefits of two new genome-edited rice varieties, the Union Minister discussed six-point strategy to increase farmers’ income.
“In agriculture, we have a six-point strategy to increase farmers’ income. To increase production, to decrease the cost of production, the right price for production, to compensate for loss, diversification, and to move towards a natural way of agriculture. Today’s launch of rice varieties is fulfilling two of these strategies- drecrease in the cost of production... It is beneficial not only to farmers but also to the public. If we want to fulfil the nutritional needs of the increasing population, then we have to increase the production,” the Union Agriculture Minister said at the lauch event.Chouhan further said that due to the production of these varieties, the maturity period of the crop will decrease and the irrigation will be required less. With this, a total of 7500 million cubic meters of irrigation water will be saved. (ANI)
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