CRRI invents two new high-yield varieties of rice

(PTI) Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), the premier rice research centre of the country here, is now ready with two new high-yielding varieties of rice that are awaiting the nod from the central committee.

With these two varieties in pipeline, the Institute now boasts of developing at least 82 new rice varieties during its 64 years of existence.

The institute during previous two years had come with 11 new varieties of which five were exclusively suitable for varied ecosystems of Orissa, its Director T K Adhya said while addressing the newsmen here yesterday.

Adhya said the new rice varieties were released by the Central and State committees for general cultivation in different parts of the country.