India to Accelerate Adoption of Stress-tolerant Rice Varieties
November 5, 2010| |
India's agricultural commissioner Gurbachan B. Singh and party visited the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) last 25-26 October 2010 to sign a memorandum agreement to accelerate the dissemination and adoption of stress-tolerant rice seeds in India. This agreement is between the Indian Ministry of Agriculture's National Food Security Mission (NSFM) program and IRRI, which will contribute the technical inputs and expertise, build the capacity of the NSFM staff, and develop information dissemination schemes for the rice technologies.
The NSFM program will work on a number of objectives which include "coordinating multiplication and targeted dissemination of stress-tolerant rice seeds in the stress-prone areas; implementing policy reforms to promote, multiply and speedily release the stress-tolerant rice seeds; managing the distribution of up to 5,000 ton seeds/yr covering 1 million farmers; organizing demonstrations and carrying out other promotional activities; financing quality seed production and storage training of extension workers and farmers; and linking with other Indian state governments as well as with other programs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation in India."
Read the original article at http://irri.org/news-events/irri-news/irri-and-india-to-fast-track-the-adoption-of-stress-tolerant-rice-varieties.
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