{"id":87147,"date":"2020-02-09T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T10:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2020-02-09T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T10:48:48","slug":"arsenic-resistant-rice-cultivated-in-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/arsenic-resistant-rice-cultivated-in-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenic-resistant rice cultivated in West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Researchers in West Bengal have developed and commercialised a rice variety named \u201cMuktoshri\u201d that is resistant to arsenic.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the rice variety:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is also called IET 21845.<\/li><li>It has been developed jointly by the Rice Research Station, West Bengal Agriculture Department and the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow.<\/li><li>The variety absorbs a very less amount of arsenic from soil and water than the other varieties of rice.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Arsenic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Arsenic is a natural component of the earth\u2019s crust and is widely distributed throughout the environment in the air, water and land. However,it is highly toxic in its inorganic form.<\/li><li>People are exposed to elevated levels of inorganic arsenic through drinking contaminated water, using contaminated water in food preparation and irrigation of food crops among others.<\/li><li>The long term exposure to inorganic arsenic mainly can lead to chronic arsenic poisoning.Skin lesions and skin cancer are the most characteristic effects.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Researchers in West Bengal have developed and commercialised a rice variety named \u201cMuktoshri\u201d that is resistant to arsenic. Facts: About the rice variety: It is also called IET 21845. It has been developed jointly by the Rice Research Station, West Bengal Agriculture Department and the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The variety absorbs a very&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/arsenic-resistant-rice-cultivated-in-west-bengal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arsenic-resistant rice cultivated in West Bengal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4895],"class_list":["post-87147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arsenic-resistant-rice","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704953337},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}