President Droupadi Murmu inaugurates 2nd Indian Rice Congress at NRRI, Cuttack

President Droupadi Murmu inaugurates 2nd Indian Rice Congress at NRRI, Cuttack

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Category : State Published on: February 14 2023

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President Droupadi Murmu has inaugurated the second Indian Rice Congress at National Rice Research Center Institute (NRRI) in Bidyadharpur.
The theme of the second Indian Rice Congress is “Changes in Rice Research: Recent Scientific Developments and the World Food Crisis”.
The international program will be held for four days till 14th February.
In this Rice Congress, various topics including national food security, global food crisis, increase of rice production in changing climate will be discussed.
The congress focused on the global food crisis and the recent scientific developments that will help in increasing the production and yield of paddy crops
ICAR-NRRI has developed India's first high protein rice, called CR Dhan 310 and NRRI has also released a high-zinc rice variety, called CR Dhan 315.
The ARRW located at ICAR-NRRI organized the congress. ARRW is the Association of Rice Research Workers. It was founded in 1961.
Cuttack is called Silver city and has several heritage values like Jagannath Temple (74 km from Cuttack), Konark city (65 km from Cuttack), Nandan Kanan National Park, Chilika lake, etc.

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