The Hisar-based Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University has signed an agreement with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) for evaluation of germ plasm.

The University's Research Director R. P. Narwal said on Wednesday that agricultural production had been severely affected due to inadequate irrigational resources and changing climatic conditions.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), which pioneered supercomputing in India, is now assisting the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in establishing a national agricultural bioinformatics grid.

This initiative, the first of its kind here, will help scientists enhance agricultural productivity and also address problems like food security.

Jalpaiguri, Dec.

Kalpana Jain / New Delhi February 18, 2010, 0:15 IST

Seed stocks to be registered, testing labs to be set up.

Companies with any seeds of Bt brinjal, the genetically modified version of the vegetable, will have to register the details with the government, to ensure none of it is sowed or otherwise gets into the market.