Seed Industry Strategic Overview

K Benchmark R&D One of the Largest Pools Of Germplasm in India Seed is most critical to output for a farmer: Performance ensures premium, repurchase Significant investments in the last five years for strengthening R&D Developed proprietary germplasm and Hybrids Over 600 acres of dedicated research farms with varying agro-climatic conditions State-of-the-art Biotech, Quality check and seed technology labs Cold DH storage for germplasm Multi-location breeding and trial stations Strong and highly motivated R&D team about 100 personnel, including more than 20 scientists Conjunct use of Bio and hybrid technologies in product development - Deployment of frontier technologies Doubled haploid breeding, MAS (Marker Aided Selection), MARS (Marker Assisted Recurrent Selection), RGA (Rapid Generation Advance), Inbred pool-heterotic bins, MPS (Multi-parent synthetics) and MAGIC (Multi-parent Advanced Generation Inter-cross populations О Research and Development facility recognized by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India Partnering with ICRISAT, Melinda Gates Foundation's Harvest Plus program, IRRI's Hybrid Rice Development Consortium, CIMMYT and USDA program on Heat Tolerant Maize for Asia (HTMA), DBT's Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Program (BIRAP) and Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC) for Vegetables Collaboration with NARS (National Agricultural Research System) Institutes and All India coordinated crop improvement programs of ICAR 15

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