PM Modi releases 109 biofortified seed varieties
Prime Minister Narendra Modi released 109 high-yielding biofortified seed varieties of agricultural and horticultural crops.
Developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), these varieties span 61 crops, including 34 field crops and 27 horticultural crops.
The field crop varieties include cereals, millets, forage crops, oilseeds, pulses, sugarcane, cotton, and fibre crops.
Biofortification is the process by which the nutritional quality of food crops is improved through agronomic practices, conventional plant breeding, or modern biotechnology.
Climate change is reducing the nutritional quality of food and biofortification has the potential to address this challenge.