(UC Davis photo) 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 ... If the hybrid plants could reproduce ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released 109 climate-friendly high-yielding ... varieties unveiled are new ones of fruits, vegetables, plantation crops, tubers, spices, flowers and medicinal plants.

As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles ... taken advantage of these variations to create high-yielding crop varieties. Two recent developments have changed ...

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 ...

All India Coordinated Research Project on Spices (AICRPS) has identified seven new high yielding spice varieties. These are Karan Dhaniya-1 (Coriander) and IISR Surya (Turmeric), Jodhpur Jeera-1 ...