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After 6 years of thorough research, Hyderabad based Professor Jayashankar Telengana State Agricultural University has made a revolutionary change in the rice industry. This new rice variety is called RNR 15048 a fine grained blast resistant paddy variety, also called as “Telengana Sona” this variety has low Glycemic index (G.I. is a number associated with a particular type of food that indicates the food’s effect on a person’s blood glucose level) of 51 and 5% more protein compared to the normal Sona Masoori having G.I. of 72, RNR rice is also useful for both diabetic and obesity persons.