Indian Cabinet okays India-Palestine MoU on agriculture cooperation
The Dollar Business Bureau The Indian Cabinet has given its approval to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and the Ministry of Agriculture in the State of Palestine on agriculture cooperation. This was signed in May 2017, when Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs had visited the country. What could seem to be an innocuous agreement, one should also look at the extra efforts on the part of the Indian government to balance its ties with Israel, Palestine, Iran and the West Asian countries. The MoU provides for cooperation in the fields of agricultural research; veterinary field including capacity enhancement of Palestinian Veterinary services and Animal Health; irrigation and climate change. It will also be extended to areas ...
Twelfth Five Year Plan aims to produce 25 mn tonnes of food grains
The Dollar Business Bureau The reforms and initiatives taken by the Government of India towards improvement of Agriculture & allied sectors will help in achieving a 25 million tonne-target of food grain production by the end of 12th Five Year Plan period. This was stated by M K Kundariya, Minister of State for Agriculture, on Wednesday, during his address at the ‘National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif Campaign-2015’, organised in New Delhi. While lauding the steps being taken by the Government of India through National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, the Minister stressed on need for making the farming sector a remunerative profession. In this regard, he called for reduced cost of production along with an increase in crop productivity, ...
