Ceremonial harvest of waterproof rice in Bangladesh

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Uploaded by on Nov 21, 2008

Waterproof' versions of popular varieties of rice, which can withstand 2 weeks of complete submergence, have passed tests in farmers' fields with flying colors. Several of these varieties are now close to official release by national and state seed certification agencies in Bangladesh and India, where farmers suffer major crop losses because of flooding of up to 4 million tons of rice per year. This is enough rice to feed 30 million people.

In this video, scientists from the International Rice Research Institute http://beta.irri.org and the University of California Davis http://www.ucdavis.edu/index.html and Riverside http://www.ucr.edu/ ceremoniously harvest a rice variety with the flood-tolerant gene on the research station of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute http://www.brri.gov.bd/ near Rangpur.

For more information, go to http://beta.irri.org/news/index.php/200809084903/frontpage/pr/Latest-Press-Re...

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  • See the links under "more info".

  • what is waterproof rice? it is genetically modified rice? please tell me more

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