Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has called for closer collaboration between India and UK on issues of mutual concern like achieving the goals of food security and zero hunger. <br />''<br />''He was virtually addressing the joint India-UK meet on "Sustaining Food Production under Environmental Stress" in New Delhi on Tuesday. Dr Singh said, India and UK must invite global collaborations in various dimensions of science like agriculture, medicine, food, pharma, engineering and defense. He said, this joint collaboration may include programmes like students exchange, basic research, technology development, product development as well as product and process demonstration and their implementation in it.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The Minister also suggested evolving important key areas in agriculture, food and nutrition to be taken up by the two countries for a joint research plan. <br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports that this virtual meet is being jointly organized by National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali, and University of Birmingham, UK and supported by Newton Bhabha Fund and British Council.</span><br />