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The country introduced the first genome-edited rice to the world ... “These new varieties will play a leading role in heralding the second Green Revolution,” adds Chouhan, noting that these ...

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan anticipates a second green revolution with these climate ... that the cultivation of these improved rice varieties in about five million hectares of ...

2025), announced the development of two genome-edited rice varieties and said the technological advancement would lead to a second green revolution in the country. The new varieties would be made ...

The varieties Kamala and Pusa DST Rice 1, developed by Indian Institute ... will play a leading role in heralding the second green revolution in the country,” the minister added.

The focus on high-yielding variety seeds led to a decline in indigenous crop varieties ... and dedicated scientists ignited the Green Revolution—a movement that would transform India’s ...

In one of India’s memorable policy changes, which came to be called the Green Revolution, in the 1960s, India started to produce imported High-Yielding Varieties (HYVs) of wheat and rice.