PANJIM: The Goa government has sought help from the Indian Council for Agricultural Research to help preserve the state germplasm as well as further research and develop it to get higher yield.

Director of ICAR, Dr Narendra Singh too said that the local germplasm of the state especially when it came to locally grown varieties of vegetables, like brinjal etc, were some of the best in the country and needed to be preserved and that the ICAR was amenable to preserving it and taking it forward.