The goal of the Savannah Research and Technology team is to increase profitability of rice production for the farmer through the exploitation of heterosis. What is heterosis, you ask? Hybrid vigor describes the increased strength of different traits, the possibility to obtain a genetically superior individual by combining the virtues of its parents. Examples of such exploitation would be superior yield and disease resistance, along with seed specifically formulated to display stable performance in different environments.

Savannah products are tested across worldwide rice market and across multiple years by our own researchers as well as under the careful watch of public collaborators. We estimate that in a single year, the Savannah yield trial system generates information equivalent to a decade of testing in a traditional rice breeding program. All new products are compared with the best commercial products to ensure that only products with superior grain yield, milling yield, disease resistance, grain quality and standability are introduced to the marketplace.

Savannah Research and Technology personnel are located in Sonepat and Hyderabad; with production plants in Haryana, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana; along with numerou satellite testing facilities, which allow us to grow rice throughout the year.

Growers participate in shaping the Savannah product offerings by allowing us to put test plots in their fields. This gives growers the ability to observe and experience the new products along with us. Processors have the opportunity to assess our rice grain before they are released to growers. That informs what we can do to improve the product even further. We welcome and encourage input from those buying our rice and record their comments for use in the future.

Savannah is on a journey to identify the best rice seed product. The goal of our research is to select products that increase value to growers, processors and end-users.

Developing parents is the first step in producing our superior rice seed products. The hundreds of parents we produce result in thousands of trait combinations. Each combination is evaluated against five characteristics: grain yield, milling yield, disease resistance, grain quality and standability. Our breeding work yields a constant supply of top-quality products.

The “seed” is a living entity, and we at Savannah take utmost care to keep the viability and vigor of seeds intact with our state of the art processing and storage infrastructure. This gives the value addition which helps the quality to reach from laboratory to our customer farmer’s field.