Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station

Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station (CRURRS) was established in Hazaribag of Jharkhand state in 1980 with specific mandate of catering to the need of improved technology for enhancing rice based agricultural productivity of rainfed uplands w sed agricultural productivity of rainfed uplands which covers about 13.5% rice growing area of India. Rainfed uplands are mostly located in the eastern parts of the country covering the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, parts of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Rainfed uplands in india are characterized by aerobic to semi aerobic soils conditions, absence of surface water accumulation, dependence on monsoon having erratic distribution, plain to slopping topography. These characters make the target ecology very much prone to unpredictable drought situations at various crop growth phases and a few biotic stresses, of which some of them are accentuated under drought stress. ...view more