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PM to address global potato conclave in Gujarat
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SME Times News Bureau | 28 Jan, 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 3rd Global Potato
Conclave at Gandhinagar, Gujarat through video conferencing on Tuesday.
The three-day mega conference begins on January 28 and ends on January
30.
During the event, the Prime Minister is expected to take
stock of the achievements and opportunities in the area of potato
research, trade and industry, and value chain management and set a
roadmap for the decade.
The Conclave provides a meeting ground
for all stakeholders to facilitate future planning by involving everyone
related to the potato sector. This will be a unique event to expose
different stakeholders of the country to the frontiers of knowledge and
innovations in potato research.
The three major components of the
conclave include - the potato conference, the agri expo and potato
field day. It will have 10 themes out of which 8 themes are based on
basic and applied research. The remaining two themes will have special
emphasis on potato trade, value chain management and policy issues.
The
Conclave is being organized by Indian Potato Association (IPA) in
collaboration with Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi,
and ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla and International
Potato Centre (CIP), Lima, Peru.
The Gandhinagar conclave is in
the third of the series and held every ten years to review the
achievements in potato sector and set a roadmap for the next decade.
The last two decades have witnessed two Global Potato Conferences organized in 1999 and 2008.
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