Banana field gene bank inaugurated

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Trilochan Mohapatra, Chairman, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, inspecting a stall astatine  the bio diverseness  just  astatine  the National Research Centre for Banana successful  Tiruchi connected  Monday.

Trilochan Mohapatra, Chairman, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, inspecting a stall astatine the bio diverseness just astatine the National Research Centre for Banana successful Tiruchi connected Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

A tract cistron slope of banana, established astatine the Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) successful Tiruchi nether an inaugural of the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, was inaugurated connected Monday.

The cistron slope was established nether a caller task for attraction of harvest varieties registered with the Authority. The NRCB has been sanctioned ₹18.50 lakh for 3 years for the attraction of the cistron bank. The main nonsubjective of the task is to cod and safeguard planting worldly from the breeders, including farmers.

The cistron slope was inaugurated by Trilochan Mohapatra, Chairman, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPVFRA), successful the beingness of its Registrar General Dinesh Kumar Agarwal and Assistant Director General for Fruits and Plantation Crops, ICAR, V.B.Patel and the Director of NRCB R.Selvarajan. A biodiversity just -cum- farmers conscionable was organised arsenic portion of the event.

Published - April 27, 2026 07:47 p.m. IST

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