International Rice Research Institute
On 12th July, 2022, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed between the Department of Agriculture & Farmer Welfare & IRRI on commencement of Phase -2 activities of IRRI South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC) to scale up the existing partnership for food and nutrition security in the South Asian region.
Phase -2 Activities
The second phase of the ISARC program proposes to-
- Increase farmers’ incomes
- Improve food and nutrition security
- Health, and well-being of small/holder farmers through increased system productivity, reduced yield gaps, enhanced climate resilience
- Mechanized and digital farming
- Improve market linkages
- Modernized value chains enabling entrepreneurship for women and youth and capacity development.
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