Yield Evaluation of Red Rice Land Races of Tamil Nadu under Organic Practices

Author: Darthiya M.*, Subbalakshmi Lokanadhan, Muralidharan C., Sankaran V.M., Lakshmanan A., Meena S. and Ravichandran V.

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Abstract

Red rice has not been given its due importance due to the emergence of white rice as a predominant staple food since the advent of green revolution. Although the scientific community is totally aware of its wonders as a source of minerals, protein and antioxidants, yet alone they cannot make a significant mark without an immense market potential demand. In recent times, demand for red rice land races is on the increasing trend among the common people due to increased awareness on red rice health benefits. This higher demand favours the small and marginal farmers to market their produce at comparatively higher prices than the high yielding varieties and thus they get benefited good returns from less inputs even under aberrant weather conditions. So, on farmers point of interest, studies on red rice production under organic practices is a need of hour as organic practices minimizes farm inputs (excluding agrochemicals). Therefore, study was put forth with an objective to identify the bes

Keywords

Red rice, land races, yield, vermicompost, azospirillum, phosphobacteria, PPFM.