The wheat variety called MACS 6478 and developed by Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), has doubled the crop yield for farmers in Karanjkhop, a village in Maharashtra.
- The farmers of the village in Koregaon tehsil of Satara district in Maharashtra are now getting a yield of 45-60 quintal per hectare with the new variety as against earlier average yield ranging 25-30 quintal per hectare when they cultivated Lok 1, HD 2189 and other old varieties.
- The newly developed common wheat or bread wheat, also called high yielding Aestivum, matures in 110 days and is resistant to most races of leaf and stem rust.
- The amber colored medium sized grain contains 14% protein, 44.1 ppm zinc and 42.8 ppm iron which is higher than other cultivated varieties.
- A research paper on this variety has been published in ‘International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences’.
(Source: PIB)
