September 20, 2013

20/09/2013: Swaminathan talks storage facilities; research scientist wins international award; Spanish trade delegation visit Central Asia

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. 

Their target is to expand and settle down their presence in this area.
More information about AGAREX. 


English: M. S. Swaminathan
English: M. S. Swaminathan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)







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