The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has called for the cultivation of hybrid rice varieties that meet the local requirements.

Dr Swapan Kumar Datta, Deputy Director-General, ICAR, said India needed to increase the productivity of rice to meet its future food requirements.

Addressing the 47th annual rice research group meetings on Saturday here, he said hybrids would play a major role in achieving targets in the coming decades.

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