Bareilly: On the occasion of Kharif campaign and World Environment Week under the Farmer First Program, a workshop on improved varieties of Pusa Basmati paddy and their scientific farming and distribution of seeds and agricultural machinery was organized in the Department of Animal Genetics from June 3 to June 7, 2024. In this workshop, 154 farmers from about 15 villages of the first and second phases and 50 farmers participated through virtual medium.
In this workshop, Dr. A.K. Singh, the father of Pusa Basmati paddy and Director of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, told the farmers the three main benefits of direct sowing of paddy, which include 30 to 35 percent water savings, ₹ 4000 to 4500 per acre savings on paddy transplantation and 30 to 35 percent reduction in the emission of greenhouse gas polluting the environment. When this method has so many benefits, then why did farmers not adopt this method because in this method weeds grow in abundance which becomes very expensive and difficult to control. Keeping these problems of farmers in mind, Director of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa New Delhi, Dr. A.K. Singh and his team of scientists have developed India’s first two weed tolerant varieties, Pusa Basmati-1985 and Pusa Basmati-1979, by improving Pusa Basmati-1509 and Pusa Basmati 1121.
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