Technology vital to food security: Swaminathan

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Technology vital to food security: Swaminathan [1]

Says educated youth can be attracted to create skilled jobs

Introducing modern technology and bringing in educated youth in the primary agriculture sector will help Kerala produce its annual requirement of four million tonnes of rice from the one million hectares of land under paddy in the State, M.S. Swaminathan, visionary agriculture scientist, said here on Sunday.

Publication Date:

28/05/2012

Source: Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram) [2]

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Rice [3], M S Swaminathan [4], Farmers [5], Palakkad (D) [6], Wayanad [7], Kasaragod (D) [8], Idukki [9], Food Security [10], Vegetables [11], Agriculture [12], Kerala [13]

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