Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said, the BRIC grouping has a huge potential in combating hunger and ensuring global food security. Speaking in Moscow yesterday at the end of his three-day visit to Russia, Mr. Pawar said Brazil, Russia, India and China has huge potential for cooperation in combating hunger and ensuring food security through coordinated approaches in modernising farming and inducting environment-friendly technologies. <br/>Mr. Pawar said, the experts group set up by the BRIC farm ministers to help combat hunger and climate change will comprise the heads of the relevant institutes of the four-nation informal grouping. Mr. Pawar, who attended the maiden session of the BRIC agriculture ministers in Moscow, said the BRIC farm ministers experts group would be regularly meeting to implement the guidelines and priority areas of their cooperation laid down in the joint declaration, which include creation of information database, development of a general strategy to ensure access to food for the most vulnerable sections of the population.
News On AIR | March 28, 2010 1:09 PM
BRIC has huge potential in ensuring global food security: Pawar