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Muktoshri rice variety
February 13 , 2020
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- Researchers in West Bengal have developed and commercialised a rice variety that is resistant to arsenic.
- The new rice variety is called Muktoshri, also known as IET 21845.
- It has been jointly developed by the Rice Research Station at Chinsurah, under West Bengal’s Agriculture Department and the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow.
- The variety yields 5.5 metric tons per hectare in the Boro (Winter) season and 4.5 to 5 metric tons per hectare in the Kharif season, respectively.
- The rice was long and thin, and aromatic.
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