Three new basmati rice varieties, which possess in-built resistance to bacterial blight and blast diseases, thus ensuring lesser usage of pesticides, sown for the first time by farmers of Punjab ...

To boost export prospects and reduce pesticide usage, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has this kharif season distributed seeds of three new varieties of basmati rice, which ...

NEW DELHI: Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), the public sector farm research body under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), has developed three improved basmati rice ...

Both are long-grain, meaning that each grain is about three to five times longer than it is wide. Can you tell which is basmati rice and which is jasmine? For most people, that answer is probably ...

Mr. Ramachandran’s Davie Dosa Company uses three different kinds of rice in its dishes: basmati, and two non-basmati varieties, idli and pongal. While basmati is still widely available ...

Inside the factories of Chaman Lal Setia Exports, one of India's largest Basmati exporters, clouds of rice dust envelop the ... have fought three wars since gaining independence in 1947, and ...