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08 January 2024
On 8 January 2024, a stocktaking workshop was organized to review the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded FAO projects being implemented in Odisha under the chairpersonship of the Principal Secretary Dr Arabinda Kumar Padhee, IAS, Department of Agriculture and Farmer’s Empowerment, Government of Odisha. The current implementation status of the...
23 December 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) facilitated two significant meetings for the Indian Network for Fishery and Animal Antimicrobial Resistance (INFAAR) in Bhubaneswar. On 22 December 2023, the tenth INFAAR Advisory Board meeting, chaired by Deputy Director...
11 December 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) collaborated to strengthen FAO's South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) framework with the International Millets Exchange Program. As part of the programme, a 10-day capacity-building workshop was inaugurated on 11 December 2023 in...
05 December 2023
FAO in collaboration with the Spices Board, Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), Government of India and in support of the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) organized a buyer-seller meet for seed spices - cumin and fennel on 5 December 2023 in Gandhinagar,...
05 December 2023
Soil and water are two fundamental resources for our sustenance with over 95 percent of our food originating from them. The symbiotic connection between soil and water is the foundation of our agricultural systems and critical to achieving the United Nations Agenda 2030. However, the current climatic changes coupled with...