ANDRA PRADESH - Boost for Biotech

While the forward looking Vision-2020 document of Andhra Pradesh government has considered agriculture as a growth engine, its recently announced Biotechnology Policy-2001 has recognised that there are apprehensions of agricultural productivity plateauing and the food production growth falling behind the population growth. The recognition of this, as well as the state government’s concerns on the policy initiatives benefiting the lower sections of the economic strata, lend a lot of significance and seriousness to the new policy. More>>

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