The government
should create modern food grain storage facilities - each with a
million tonne capacity - at 50 locations across the country, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan has suggested.
Swaminathan said the government will require 64 million tonnes of food grain
every year to fulfil the commitment under the Food Security Law that was recently
passed by Indian Parliament, that provides for 5 kg of food grain per month
per person to 67 per cent of the country's population.
Dr Charity Mutegi, research scientist at the International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is the recipient of the 2013 Norman Borlaug
Award for Field Research and Application.
Speaking at the African Green Revolution Forum in Maputo, Mozambique Mamadou Biteye, the Rockefeller Foundation’s managing director for Africa, announced the award at the request of the
World Food Prize Foundation.
The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing the
achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by
improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world.
From September 22nd to 27th, a trade delegation formed by fifteen companies and AGRAGEX, the Spanish Exporters Association of Agricultural Machinery and its components, Greenhouses and Crop
Protection, Irrigation Systems, Livestock Equipment, Nutrition and Animal Health, Forestry Machinery, Biomass and Post-Harvesting Equipment will be promoting the Spanish industry’s main assets and their innovative solutions for the current requirements in these countries.
Protection, Irrigation Systems, Livestock Equipment, Nutrition and Animal Health, Forestry Machinery, Biomass and Post-Harvesting Equipment will be promoting the Spanish industry’s main assets and their innovative solutions for the current requirements in these countries.
Their target is to expand and settle down their presence in this area.
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