Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world’s population, but most farmers don’t grow high-yielding varieties because the seeds are too expensive. Researchers from the University of ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released 109 climate-friendly high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of crops and bio-fortified seeds. How is this expected to empower farmers? The new varieties launched ...

For thousands of years, plant breeders have taken advantage of these variations to create high-yielding crop varieties. In 1983, the first genetically modified organisms , or GMOs, appeared in ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient, and biofortified varieties of crops at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute here and interacted with ...

Supermarkets, government food programmes, and households favour high-yielding rice and wheat, sidelining traditional, climate-resilient grains of millets, pulses and indigenous rice varieties.

Lucknow: The CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow, will launch new high-yielding varieties of tulsi (basil) and rose-scented geranium at the two-day Kisan ...