- Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurates the 9th Session of Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar has said that plant genetic resources are the source of solution to the breeding challenges.
- Plant genetic resources are also vulnerable due to habitat destruction and climate change. Their protection is a “shared responsibility of humanity”.
- He said we must use all modern technologies as well as traditional knowledge to preserve and use them in a sustainable manner.
- Conservation of plant genetic resources shared responsibility of humanity – Union Agriculture Minister
- “India committed to ensure food and nutritional security for its citizens”: Shri Tomar