PM Modi Unveils 109 New Climate-Resilient, High-Yield Crop Varieties for India’s Future

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)

PM Modi Unveils 109 New Climate-Resilient: On Sunday, at 11 AM, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi about the 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient, and biofortified crop varieties.

The government has taken this initiative to revive agriculture and enhance food security in the country. In demonstration fields of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) the seeds and planting materials were introduced at three locations as stated by the Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

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The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement, “The 109 varieties of 61 crops released by the Prime Minister included 34 field crops and 27 horticultural crops. Among the field crops, seeds of various cereals including millets, forage crops, oilseeds, pulses, sugarcane, cotton, fibre and other potential crops were released.”

“Among the horticultural crops, different varieties of fruits, vegetable crops, plantation crops, tuber crops, spices, flowers and medicinal crops were released.”

During this occasion, PM Modi also interacted with farmers and scientists.

The PMO statement said, “Discussing the importance of these new crop varieties, the Prime Minister stressed on the significance of value addition in agriculture.”

“The farmers said that these new varieties will be highly beneficial as they will help reduce their expenditure and also have a positive impact on the environment.”

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The 35 varieties, include an early maturing variety of soybean, disease-resistant varieties of rice and biofortified varieties of wheat, tolerant varieties of chickpeas, wilt, and sterility mosaic resistant pigeon pea, faba bean, pearl millet, maize and chickpea, winged bean, quinoa, and buckwheat.

The PM also discussed the importance of millet and its benefits “natural farming and the increasing faith of common people towards organic farming”.

The statement said, “The farmers also lauded the role played by Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVK) in creating awareness.”

“The Prime Minister suggested that KVKs should proactively inform farmers about the benefits of the new varieties being developed every month to enhance awareness about their benefits.”

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