more-inThe Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has in principal agreed to establish an IRRI regional innovation centre in Andhra Pradesh, according to a press released from Minister for Agriculture Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy. The Minister who visited the IRRI head office in Manila, Philippines, with a team of officials on Wednesday. IRRI has already entered into an agreement with the Agricultural University to train its scientists, economists and Statisticians in the month of march. It has already entered into an agreement to establishing a Satellite-based Rice Monitoring System in one of the campuses of the Agricultural universities.

Source: The Hindu February 07, 2018 20:00 UTC