A workshop on evaluation of stress-tolerant paddy seeds was held at village Phatamunda in Deogaon block, 20 km from here, on Wednesday.
The workshop was organised by the Reliance Foundation along with the International Rice Research Institute, the State Department of Agriculture and the Bhimpahad Producers Limited.
A team of agriculture expert led by Dr Bhanu Prasad Bhadoria, Dr Dilip Rout of IRRI, BG Mahesh of Reliance Foundation, Mumbai, visited the field offFarmer Gangaram Patel in which as many as eighteen varieties of paddy are cultivated.
The eighteen paddy varieties include DRR-44, DRR-39, Harsit, Ardhajal, Bina-11, Bina-17, Sahabhagi, Susk Samrat, IR-64 and Danteshwari.
The expert team interacted with farmers and took their opinions on the paddy varieties. Later, a meeting was held in which farmers shared their experiences and problems of paddy cultivation in the earlier years.