This rice is a boon for diabetic patients…scientist gave this advice to the patients

Anjali Singh Rajput/Lucknow. Samba Mansuri rice is resistant to bacterial blight disease and also has a very low glycemic index, which is very beneficial for diabetic patients. It is worth noting that the Glycemic Index (GI) is a scale that ranks carbohydrate-rich food or drink on the basis of how much glucose increases in the blood after eating or drinking it.

Sambha Mansuri paddy is an advanced variety from the regions of South India. Farmers cultivate this there. Its rice is tasty to eat and at the same time, due to the crop being harvested in less days, the farmer does not have to incur much cost. Today this species is being cultivated in more than 1.5 lakh hectares of land in various states like Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Telangana. This is to say of Dr. Hitendra Patel, Senior Principal Scientist of CSIR-CCMB, who had come to participate in the program on the occasion of National Technology Day organized by CSIR-CMAP.

Cultivation of other crops is also beneficial
During this, NIPGR scientist Dr. Ashwerya Lakshmi told that farmers can get profit from the cultivation of these crops only through value addition and farmers are getting a lot of contribution from CIMAP in it. He praised the agricultural technology, training and extension programs of CSIR-CMAP and claimed that it is working on contemporary farmer challenges.

Discussion on developed rice varieties
Dr. RM Sundaram, Director, ICAR-IIRR, discussed about the rice varieties developed by the institute including Sambha Mansuri, DRR Dhan-58, DRR Dhan-60, DRR Dhan-62. He told that these varieties have qualities like resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and at the same time the production is very high and they require less amount of fertilizer.

Incense sticks will be made from flowers
On this occasion, M/s Pooja Mehrotra and Amit Mehrotra of Saubhagya Foundation Trust, Ashiana, Lucknow along with CSIR-CIMAP and M/s Venkateshwara Cooperative Power for providing employment to poor unemployed youth along with disabled children and female prisoners in jail and making them incense sticks from flowers. And Agro Processing Limited, who was Anil Kumar Pandey from Nashik Maharashtra, he transferred the technology of making incense sticks and cones made from geranium waste and flowers.

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