<span style="color: #222222;">Ambassador of India to Thailand Suchitra Durai today received the prestigious King Bhumibol World Soil Day – 2020 Award of Food and Agriculture Organization on the behalf of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand Dr. Chalermchai Srion conferred the award in a Ceremony held at Bangkok.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The international recognition was announced by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome on the eve of World Soil Day – 2020 in view of the ICAR's excellent contributions in Soil Health Awareness on the theme Stop soil erosion, save our future during the last year.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh organized a wide array of several programmes with great fervour and enthusiasm for the school students, farming community and general public.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Institute organized a massive awareness campaign for preserving SOIL – Our Mother Earth to commemorate the World Soil Day including March-Past and distribution of promotional materials on soil health to the participants.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Executives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Executives of Land Development, Soil and Fertilizer Society of Thailand, Soil and Water Conservations Society of Thailand, World Soil Association and Executives of other Departments under the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives participated in the event.</span><br />''  <br />