NATIONAL COORDINATED RICE PROGRAMME
NARC, Islamabad
ACHIEVEMENTS
Rice Program has acquired more than 22,000 rice lines from IRRI, Philippines through its INGER network. So far 12 rice varieties have been developed and released from this exotic germplasm.
NCRP so far has developed and released 23 rice varieties and 36 rice hybrids for different rice ecologies of the country.
The Rice Program has developed water-saving rice production technologies (Aerobic & AWD) and disseminated these technologies on 20,000 impact acres in four districts of Punjab and Sindh provinces. The results at farmers’ fields showed 25-32 % water saving and 16-25 % yield increment over farmers’ traditional practice. Dry rice planting contributed an additional income of Rs. 32,250/ha to farmers. Technology is environment & farmer friendly, no drudgery operation, no emission of gases, and time saving of 7-10 days.The innovative resource-conserving water saving technologies are being disseminated in two provinces and it is estimated that if practiced on 0.7 mha (non-traditional rice area), monitory benefit would be as high as Rs.30 billion to rice farmers.
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