KULGAM, Sept. 2 -- Principal Secretary Agriculture Production, Shailendra Kumar, today visited Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops (MRCFC) Khudwani, SKUAST-Kashmir and participated in Live Exhibition of Temperate Rice Biodiversity.

During the visit, Principal Secretary undertook a detailed tour of the research trials and was briefed about the centre's ongoing research & seed production programmes. He was apprised of the centre's remarkable contributions over the past eight decades in rice and other field crops, with a special emphasis onthe meticulous germplasm conservation program.

The Principal Secretary was accompanied by Vice Chancellor SKUAST-Kashmir, Prof. Nazir Ahmad Ganie; Deputy Commissioner Kulgam, Athar Aamir; Director A...