Why the Gates Foundation is flooding a new rice variety with funding
The Gates Foundation is looking into data suggesting that the submergence tolerance trait may help farmers in years with and without flooding.
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The Gates Foundation is looking into data suggesting that the submergence tolerance trait may help farmers in years with and without flooding.
The useful genes, identified by Indian scientists using a biotechnology tool called Marker Assisted Selection, were introduced into the genetic background of Samba Mahsuri to produce a new derivative.
Sticky in nature, black rice is also suitable for making porridge and can also be used in preparing sweet dishes.
Salt-resistant rice can provide a buffer for some of the most vulnerable people who might otherwise be ruined.
The farmers can send the photo and voice through this mobile app.
High yield of 1,600 quintals last year has encouraged farmers to cultivate this new variety.
In two years of initial field trials, rice varieties with Arcadia’s salinity-tolerance trait showed double-digit increase under saline conditions, with no loss of yield under normal conditions, said the company in a statement.
On the occasion, 1,500 mini kits of these seeds which are high-yielding in nature, were distributed to farmers.
espite a looming agrarian crisis, farmers in Wayanad have become the guardians of critical agro-biodiversity by nurturing traditional rice varieties which are fast becoming extinct.
Source: The Indian Express 26/11/2015 – Lebo Randhari sold 56 quintals of paddy from his four-acre field at Gobardhanguda in Nabarangpur’s Kosagumuda block last year, fetching him Rs 76,160 at the government’s minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 1,360 per quintal. This farmer from the adivasi Bhatra community is a beneficiary of probably the only…