# Indian rice farmers increasingly opt for buying high-yielding hybrids instead of saving seeds - Genetic Literacy Project

> Hybrid rice adoption in India is rising, with about 65.8 lakh acres under hybrid paddy, roughly 83 percent of it in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Farmers buy new hybrid seed each season because saved grain does not retain hybrid vigour.

- Date: 2018-06-04 · published 2018-06-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region India · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/6750-indian-rice-farmers-increasingly-opt-for-buying-high-yielding-hybrids-instead
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md)

## Why it matters

Higher hybrid yields could gradually lift Indian rice output and export availability, a structural bearish factor for rice prices over time, though the effect on near-term markets is limited.

## Read by commodity

- RICE: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RICE | 2021-05-25 | [Indian farmers expect to harvest record wheat, rice crops this year](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47052-indian-farmers-expect-to-harvest-record-wheat-rice-crops-this-year.md) | +1.0% | +0.0% |
| RICE | 2018-02-27 | [Higher rice, pulse yields lift farm output to record 277.5 mt - The HinduBusinessLine](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66445-higher-rice-pulse-yields-lift-farm-output-to-record-277-5-mt-the.md) | +3.4% | +4.8% |
| RICE | 2024-12-13 | [India's rice stocks surge to record high, boosting export prospects](https://feedsoft.ai/events/26923-india-s-rice-stocks-surge-to-record-high-boosting-export-prospects.md) | -4.0% | -4.2% |
| RICE | 2017-04-14 | [Record global harvest of cereals, India too heads for a new high](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71586-record-global-harvest-of-cereals-india-too-heads-for-a-new-high.md) | -3.9% | +0.6% |
| RICE | 2024-06-03 | [Farmers’ Terms of Trade (FTT) May 2024 was 116.71 or fell 0.06 percent. Dried harvested grain (GKP) price at the farmer level increased by 2.73 percent and the price of premium quality rice at the huller level decreased by 3.79 percent.](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29844-farmers-terms-of-trade-ftt-may-2024-was-116-71-or-fell-0-06-percent-dried.md) | +2.8% | -4.0% |

## Sources

- geneticliteracyproject.org: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/06/04/indian-rice-farmers-increasingly-opt-for-buying-high-yielding-hybrids-instead-of-saving-seeds/

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