The Agriculture Ministry has notified “Improved Pusa Basmati-1” in a move to popularise this evolved variety for export and augmenting farmers’ income. In the face of the Commerce Ministry’s continued reluctance to remove the embargo of one traditional parent clause in the definition of basmati rice for notification purposes for export and its proposal to delete adherence to Seeds Act, 1966, the Agriculture Ministry has come up with this notification. The Ministry of Agriculture notified on July 20 Improved Pusa Basmati-1, an evolved variety developed by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
Pusa basmati-1 today accounts for more than 60 per cent of basmati rice exports from the country and is likely that the newly notified ‘improved Pusa Basmati-1’ would increasingly replace the extant “Pusa basmati-1” in the coming years in view of its improved quality and competitiveness.
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