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Plant genetic resources are crucial to our diets and the Treaty’s role is to ensure these are safeguarded and accessible as part of innovative, sustainable and resilient agrifood systems solutions
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources to add more seed varieties to ‘food basket’ Read More
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the world’s second-largest refurbished state-of-the-art National Gene Bank at the ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New …
Agriculture minister inaugurates refurbished gene bank at National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Read More
Objective of the MoU is to conserve the MAPGRs at designated space of ICAR-NBPGR in long-term storage module — as per availability — in the National Gene bank and or at regional stations for medium term storage module
NMPB and ICAR-NBPGR sign MoU to conserve medicinal and aromatic plants genetic resources Read More
The largest producer of pigeonpea in the world, India could increase its production three times, provided there are varieties resistant to diseases and adapted to climate change. Photo Credit: Michael Major/Crop Trust