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Govt to promote hybrid rice cultivation [1]

Cultivation of hybrid rice is to be promoted in a big way by offering heavy subsidies in areas where the paddy yields have reached the plateau. This will help lift the rice production and productivity to the next higher level from the record 83.25 million tonnes bagged in the last kharif season.

Publication Date: 
27/01/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Food Crops [3], Rice [4], GM Crops [5], Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR) [6], India [7], Food Security [8]
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