A new wheat variety MACS-6478 was recently in news.
It has helped farmers in a village in Maharashtra to double their yield.
Developed by: Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology.
The farmers are now getting a yield of 45 to 60 quintal per hectare with the new variety compared to earlier average yield ranging 25 to 30 quintal per hectare.
It is also called high yielding Aestivum, matures in 110 days and is resistant to most races of leaf and stem rust.
