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India: Swarna-Sub1 hailed as a major innovation with great potential for helping rice farmers in flood-prone areas India: Swarna-Sub1 hailed as a major innovation with great potential for helping rice farmers in flood-prone areas April 15, 2015 Shri Radha Mohan Singh, the Indian Union Agriculture Minister, declared the...Read More
Regional cooperation speeds up the release of rice varieties Regional cooperation speeds up the release of rice varieties April 1, 2015 Rice farmers in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal will have faster access to newly developed high-yielding climate-smart varieties....Read More