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Identification of Donors for Rice Breeding
Importance of donor varieties to farmers
Farmers can improve their economic status through better agriculture.
Improved seed is the easiest and cheapest technology for enhancing yields.
To improve yields, factors/stresses that reduce yields should be identified,
and donors having desirable traits should be identified. The required
characters must be transferred to a high-yielding variety by breeding.
Farmers can then use the genetically improved local variety for high yield
and increased income.
Prepared by:
R.K. Singh, J.K. Roy, K. Prasad, S. Mallik, R.K. Sahu, N.K. Sarma and
J.L. Dwivedi
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