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New paddy variety to be cultivated from next year


The bacterial blight-resistant ‘samba masuri' variety paddy developed by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here was successful in its field trials conducted in about 5,000 acres in Karnataka this year, Director of the premier research organisation Ch. Mohan Rao stated here on Friday.

Addressing media persons as part of the CCMB's foundation day celebrations Mr. Rao said wide acceptance of the paddy variety in Shimoga and other areas of Karnataka had inspired the Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR) to increase the extent of cultivation to about 50,000 acres next year in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab.

High acceptance

An Andhra Pradesh-based seed company took the responsibility to produce the blight-resistant variety paddy seed sufficient for the extended cultivation next year.

Acceptance of the variety was so high that an entire village in Shimoga area had decided to cultivate the variety next year as every farmer had suffered crop loss this year except the one who had cultivated the blight-resistant one on trial basis, the CCMB chief cited as an example.