Karnal, April 23 -- Union agriculture and farmers' welfare minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday expressed high hopes that the country will witness record wheat production during the ongoing Rabi season and that has been only possible due to high yielding variety of seeds developed by the wheat scientists.

The minister said this during "Krishak Sanwad", a dialogue with the farmers and wheat experts organised at Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR) in Karnal.

Chouhan, who was on a day long visit here, also inaugurated a Genome Editing Lab funded by "Enhancing Climate Resilience and Ensuring Food Security with Genome Editing Tools", one of the schemes by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

The lab aims to...