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22 July 2020
FAO India organized a virtual training programme on ‘Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Maize Crop with special reference to Fall Army Worm (FAW)’ from July 21-22, 2020 as a part of   FAO’s “Time-critical measures to support early warning and monitoring and sustainable management of the Fall Armyworm in India” project. The...
13 July 2020
On 22nd June, 2020,Mr Tomio Shichiri, FAO Representative, India inaugurated the USAID-ICAR-FAO Online Training Course on Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for the members of the Indian Network for Fisheries and Animal AMR (INFAAR). This two day (June 22-23, 2020) training course was attended by 45 officials of the Indian...
05 June 2020
On June 05, 2020, the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) organized a webinar entitled, ‘Sahakar Suraksha: The Locust Issue for Agri–Cooperatives’ to generate awareness on locust incursions in India. The webinar was streamed live on the Facebook and YouTube page of NCDC India. Shri Dinesh Sharma, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar...
26 May 2020
The UN General Assembly declared 20 May as World Bee Day to be celebrated annually, in an effort to generate greater awareness about the important role that bees play in the environment. On this occasion, a webinartitled, ‘Sweet Revolution and Atmanirbhar Bharat’wasorganized bythe National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) in partnership...
11 March 2020
FAO organized a virtual meeting of Ministers of four South Western Asian Countries on March 11, 2020 to effectively respond to the current Desert Locust spring breeding and a potential threat of swarm invasion at the beginning of the summer in the South-West Asia region. The meeting was requested by...