Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release 'Vision 2050' for Indian agriculture in Patna on July 25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release 'Vision 2050' for Indian agriculture prepared by the country's premier agriculture research institute in Patna on July 25, said Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today. This is also the first time that celebrations of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) foundation day will be organised outside Delhi.
"The Prime Minister will be the chief guest at ICAR foundation day celebrations here and release 'Vision 2050' for agriculture prepared by it to tackle the challenges of future," Mr Singh told reporters.
PM Modi will also inaugurate three new projects - Farmers First, Arya and Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav (My village my pride), and ask agriculture scientists from all over the country to speed up the process to provide new technologies to farmers, which will lead to a quantum jump in agriculture productivity.
Assembly elections are due Bihar in a few months. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is hoping for some new announcements. Speaking to reporters in Patna, Mr Kumar said, "There is not much hope of PM announcing anything new in the package he is expected to announce. His announcement would be a packaging of the existing ones initiated by me and approved by the UPA."
The country's first agriculture research and education institute - 'Indian Agricultural Research Institute', then known as Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research, was established at Pusa in Samastipur district here in 1905.
PM Modi will also award 82 persons including agricultural scientists, farmers and journalists writing on agriculture issues on the occasion. The awards include the prestigious Norman Borlaug Award. He will also provide 'soil testing kits' to young agriculture entrepreneurs.
Mr Kumar's Janata Dal United (JDU) and Mr Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal have joined hands with the Congress to form an alliance against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which has Union ministers Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) with the BJP.