Sharad Pawar urges scientists to remove all misgivings regarding GM crops

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Ministry of Agriculture
Sharad Pawar urges scientists to remove all misgivings regarding GM crops
CONFERENCE OF VICE CHANCELLORS OF AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES INAUGURATED
New Delhi: February 17, 2010

The Minister of Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution Shri Sharad Pawar has urged agricultural scientists to
double their efforts to remove all misgivings regarding GM crops from
the minds of policy makers and public. Inaugurating the two-day
conference of Vice Chancellors of Agricultural Universities and
meeting of Directors of ICAR here today, Shri Pawar said, 'the recent
decision on Bt. brinjal should not be seen as a setback to our
efforts, but a challenge which we need to surmount.'

He said, 'conventional technologies of agriculture are inadequate to
meet the formidable challenges. The most compelling case for
bio-technology and more specifically transgenic crops is their
capability to increase crop productivity, lower production costs,
conserving bio-diversity, efficient use of external inputs, and
improvement of economic and social benefits and alleviation of abject
poverty in poor and developing countries.'

Referring to animal husbandry, the Minster said that the threat from
trans-boundary animal diseases and epizoonotics has increased. He
stressed on the research on developing crop-live stock farming system
based on integrated food-fodder, breed-health and bio-security
management.

Shri Pawar underlined the need for alliance of ICAR-University and
line departments of State governments for creating an atmosphere of
academic excellence. He said, 'we must strive to be models of
all-round excellence in creating institutions of global standards.
Requisite models of public-private partnerships must be evolved for
educational activities as well as for development, application and
flow of technologies from lab to the market place and for
strengthening of National Agricultural Research System (NARS)
infrastructure, through active interface with the industry.'

The Minister of State for Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution Prof. KV Thomas, in his address, emphasized on the
need for a big push in the higher education sector in Agriculture and
Allied subjects- both economically and technologically. He called for
a three-fold increase in the number of PhDs , Post Doctoral, Masters
and Bachelor degree holders and integrating PhD students with the
research priorities of ICAR. Without working out the numbers and
prioritizing research engagement especially in cutting edge areas like
nano technology, biotechnology and instrumentation in agriculture,
historic momentum in agriculture can not be fully sustained, Prof.
Thomas asserted. He also emphasized on strengthening international
cooperation, and private sector participation in the field of
agricultural research.

sb: v.c. conference (17.2.2010)/dk/kol/15:23 hrs.

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