3 years, 2 months ago
India unveils new rice variety to cut down on use of water, labour
Live MintIndia's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched an array of new high-yielding crop varieties, including herbicide-tolerant rice that can be directly sown into the soil, cutting expenditure on water and farm workers. Government scientists said the new rice varieties contain a gene that would allow farmers to spray a common, inexpensive herbicide without worrying about any side effects. Water conservation is likely to be the main attraction of the new rice varieties in India, where farmers rely heavily on monsoon rains. "For farmers like us, the main concern was the management of weeds, and the new varieties take care of that concern," said Ravindra Kajal, who grows rice on his 9-acre plot in the northern state of Haryana.
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