Government Prepares La Nina-Resistant Paddy Variety

THE South Sulawesi provincial administration has prepared a La Nina-resistant paddy variety. This is meant to anticipate the phenomenon of La Nina predicted to prevail until March 2011.

Etik Setianingrum, Head of the Data and Information Section, Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, Region IV, said from November 2010 to April 2011 rainfall would exceed the normal average. Therefore