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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...
06 March 2020
FAO in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW) and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) is designing the ‘Transforming Rice-Wheat Food Systems in India’ project. The project is part of the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Impact Program on Food Systems, Land Use and...
25 February 2020
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) with the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) and the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW) partnered with FAO for the implementation of a Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) project on “Strengthening Agriculture and Allied Sector Contribution to India’s National Biodiversity Action Plan...