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28 September 2018
Mr. Manoj Singh, National Project Coordinator spoke on the theme of “Food Value Chain Partnerships” – End to End Approach at the conference organized by ASSOCHAM (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India) and supported by Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Ministry of Food Processing Industry, Government of...
21 September 2018
The project launch of the Green Agriculture project  jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoAFW) and the Food and Agriculture Organization  of the United Nations (FAO) took place yesterday (17 September 2018) at New Delhi. Speaking at the launch, the Joint Secretaries from the Ministry of Agriculture...
29 August 2018
FAO India has been actively engaging with senior officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare (MoAFW) and members from ICAR on FAW related issues, as FAO has been the lead institution to coordinate the response to the FAW emergency in Africa. Ms. Anne-Sophie Poisot, FAOR (a.i.) has presented FAO's Global Coordination work on the...
27 August 2018
Ms. AnneSophie Poisot, FAOR (a.i.) spoke at the 2nd wellness and krishi expo 2018 on the theme of "Innovative markets and local food systems for sustainable and organic agriculture". The session was attended by eminent personalities such as Ms. Vandana Shiva, Environmental Activist, Author and Founder, Navdanya among others. Ms. Poisot spoke...
21 August 2018
FAO and USAID in collaboration with Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) organized a 2-days Training Workshop on “Management of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) data using the WHO freely downloadable Windows based software (WHONET5.6)” during 17-18 August, 2018 at the ICAR-National Bureau for Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Lucknow, India. The...