National Speed Breeding Crop Facility | 13 Mar 2024

Source: PIB

Recently, the Union Minister of Science & Technology, inaugurated the first-of-its-kind "National Speed Breeding Crop Facility" at the premier National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) in Mohali.

• The facility will be used to develop new varieties such as wheat, rice, soybean, pea, tomato, etc., by using a precisely controlled environment to achieve more than four generations of a crop per year.
• The facility will help agricultural and biotechnology researchers for improved crop varieties, plant breeders and farmers in adopting varieties of superior yield and nutritional traits.
• The facility will cater to all the States of India but it will especially be useful for the North Indian States like Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and the UT of J&K.
• NABI is the first Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, established in India on 18^th February 2010.
  • The NABI has significantly contributed to ‘Atal Jai Anusandhan Biotech (UNaTI) Mission, Poshan Abhiyan, and Biotech Kisan Hubs for Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana etc.

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