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THE Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) has conducted a special training on Mutation and Breeding (MB), with an eye to help speeding up rice breeding programmes in Tanzania.

Sundarban Farmers Need a Rice Variety That Is Salt-Tolerant But Also Marketable The increasing frequency of cyclones means growing high-yielding varieties – which do not grow well on saline soil – is no longer an option. A villager at a temporary shelter on a high ground in the aftermath of Cyclone Yaas, at Ghoramara Island in the Sundarban Delta complex of the Bay of Bengal, Saturday, May 29, 2021 Photo: PTI Environment8 hours ago Kolkata: Cyclone Aila of 2009 had triggered a wave of...