ENSURING FOOD safety and diet will likely be among the many high 4 precedence areas in conferences of the agriculture working group throughout India’s G20 Presidency until September subsequent yr, sources informed The Indian Express.
On the agenda of this group to date are 5 conferences on agriculture, together with three deputy conferences, one among chief scientists and one other of ministers, sources mentioned. Several aspect occasions have additionally been deliberate for these conferences, with the advantages of millets listed as a key theme.
The different precedence areas of the group are growing sustainable agriculture and local weather good method; constructing inclusive agricultural worth chains and meals methods; and, know-how and digitisation for agricultural transformation, sources mentioned.
These conferences assume significance in gentle of the rising international meals disaster triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A supply mentioned that of the 2 agriculture deputy conferences (ADMs), the primary will likely be held in Indore, on February 13-15, 2023, to take inventory of G20 initiatives within the sector, an Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) and wheat.
The aspect occasions embrace exhibitions on agri start-ups, millets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and an tour to Mandu Fort within the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh.
The second ADM will likely be held in Chandigarh on March 29-31, with a separate assembly of AMIS, a millet exhibition displaying local weather resilience and an tour to Rock Garden deliberate on the sidelines.
The third assembly will likely be of agriculture chief scientists in Varanasi on April 17-19. The aspect occasions embrace a millet exhibition displaying regional varieties, and visits to the South Campus of BHU (Mirzapur) and the ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (Varanasi).
The fourth assembly will likely be held in Hyderabad on June 15, together with a dialogue on the mainstreaming of millets for higher diet and local weather resilience.
The Ministerial assembly may also be held in Hyderabad, on June 16-17, and features a cultural programme at Golconda Fort, a go to to the Indian Institute of Millet Research, and one other exhibition on millets and its well being advantages.
As a part of the decision-making course of within the multilateral G20, working teams comprising specialists and officers from numerous ministries will deliberate on a variety of internationally related points of their areas of focus.
The G20 Agriculture Deputies Group was created through the French Presidency in 2011 to take care of volatility in international meals costs.
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