February 9, 2017 7:22 PM

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Agriculture Minster urges students to help bring second Green Revolution

Agriculture Minster Radha Mohan Singh has said that for bringing the second Green Revolution in the country, students trained in agriculture will have to come to forefront and devote their knowledge and skills to agriculture and farmers welfare.<br/><br/>He was addressing the 55th convocation of Indian Agricultural Research Institute – IARI in New Delhi today. Mr Singh said due to the presence of Pusa Institute in Delhi, there has been continuous development of agriculture in the adjoining states like Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh. <br/><br/>He said two more IARI in Assam and Jharkhand have been opened, through which holistic development of agriculture is taking place in the entire country. The Minster said due to adoption of crop varieties developed by Pusa Institute, meaningful and multiple changes have been observed. <br/><br/>Mr Singh said last year IARI has released 11 varieties of different field crops such as rice, wheat, mustard and pulses. <br/><br/>Agriculture Minister said under the leadership of Prime Minster a number of agricultural and farmers welfare schemes had been stated to strengthen rural livelihood security besides promotion of food production.

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