Varanasi farmer reaches out to PM, wants to donate wheat ‘varieties’ developed by him


Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi of Tadiya village, Varanasi, received a surprise call from Karnal’s Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR) on July 23. On Thursday, two wheat breeders visited his village.
Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi, a farmer of village Tadiya in Varanasi district, got a surprise call from a scientist from Karnal-based Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR), one of the several centres of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), on July 23 informing him that a team of wheat breeders wants to visit him. On Thursday, two scientists were there at his village.
