India, Ghana deepen agricultural cooperation with five-year research MoU
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- ✓India and Ghana signed a five-year MoU to boost agricultural research and technology transfer.
- ✓The Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Crops Research Institute will work together on vegetable crops, starting with tomato research.
- ✓This partnership aims to improve farming methods, value addition for tubers, and post-harvest management.
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India and Ghana have strengthened cooperation in agricultural research, education and technology transfer with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi and the Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Accra, Ghana.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, this MoU will strengthen India's focus on South-South and India-Africa collaboration. The signing ceremony was graced by S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana.
Five-year framework to focus on joint agricultural research
The five-year MoU provides a framework for cooperation in joint agricultural research, scientific and technological exchange, capacity building and the application and commercialisation of agricultural technologies.
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