India-US To Work Mutually On Agriculture Technology

Addressing a joint session of Indian parliament, US President Barak Obama has announced United States help to India in order improve its weather forecasting systems, as both countries are likely to increase cooperation on agriculture technology in an effort to spark a second, more sustainable "Evergreen Revolution" in the South Asian nation.



As President Obama's visited India, and announced his government’s backing of India for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, adding that the joint US-India technology would improve Indian weather forecasting systems before the next monsoon season.

India remains plagued by a high food inflation rate, which has stayed in the double digits after the worst drought in four years in 2009.

But the year-on-year food inflation rate decelerated to 12.85% in the week to Oct. 23 from 13.75% in the previous week.


In the sixties and seventies, the Indian government implemented a program to encourage high-yielding crops that eventually made the country self-sufficient for food for the first time. This came to be known as the Green Revolution.

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