PR 106 Rice
Various features of this
variety of rice are as follows :
- PR 106 is the rice variety that is grown in Punjab.
- This variety currently accounts for 80% of the area of Punjab
under rice cultivation.
- It was introduced in 1976.
- The grain is long and white.
- Its kernel length is 6.63 mm.
- It is fine and aromatic.
- It is considered resistant to white backed planthopper and stem
rot.
- It has become susceptible to both diseases, in addition to
succumbing to rice leaf-folder, stemborer, hispa and many other
insect pests.
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