Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated two research facilities at the Agri Premier Research Institute, the International Plant Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Campus (ICRISAT), Hyderabad – Climate change research facility on plant protection and generation of progress facilities.
PM also launched a specially designed ICRISAT logo and launched a warning stamp to start the 50th birthday celebration of the Agri Research Institute.
Overcoming the participants, PM said climate change would be about smallholders, which constituted around 80-85% of the total farmers in India and the government worked with these farmers to reduce risk.
Quoting the Union budget, he said that the government would focus natural agriculture, digital agriculture, millet cultivation and higher oil, among others.
“We focus high and inclusive growth in the Agri sector,” he said, adding that along with food security, the government will also focus on nutritional security.
Along with PM, Governor of Telangana, Tamilisai Soundararajan, the welfare of the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern Region Kishan Reddy and Icrisat General Jacqueline D’Arros Hughes present at the ceremony.