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Late Harvest Chickpea DevelopedNEW DELHI - Feb 26/04 - SNS -- Researchers at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) have developed a variety of chickpeas intended to be sown immediately after the kharif season harvest ends and before rabi season planting normally gets underway. Researchers said the chickpea is a higher yielding variety with good disease resistance characteristics. They hope growers will be attracted to the plants agronomics, allowing production to expand to levels which would reverse the trend toward reliance on imports to cover the country's pulse production deficit. The subscriber version of the article is available by Clicking here
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