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FAO conferred 'Agricola Award' on the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was bestowed with the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation’s highest award Agricola Medal for his immense contribution to the development of agricultural and the reduction of poverty and hunger on April 10.
Food and Agriculture Organisation Director-General Jacques Diouf presented the Agricola Medal to Manmohan Singh.
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While giving the award Diouf said, “With your deep understanding of India’s economy you have made modernising and revitalising your country’s agriculture one of your highest priorities.”
“Thanks to your efforts, agricultural growth in your country is on the path to contributing more to the fast growth of a global economy that includes the needs of vulnerable citizens,” he added.
He enumerated on various achievement related to the development of agriculture, including the flow of credit to farmers which has been doubled in the last four years, director general congratulated Singh for his ‘exemplary vision and resolve’ which promoted the growth.
The organisation noted various plans and guidelines that prompted the enormous agricultural production that added to earning food security for India; it marked the plan that will double horticultural production by 2012 while plans are on track to increase national Rice, Wheat and Pulses production by 20 million tons.
These achievements are notable seeing the population of the country and Diouf showed all his admiration on behalf of the organisation, he said pointing towards Singh’s achievement and aspiration, “esteem and admiration for all you are doing to feed your people and to make the issues of poverty and malnutrition a central focus of attention at home and internationally”.
The other winners of the coveted Agricola Medal include King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, French President Jacques Chirac, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Pope John Paul II, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Johannes Rau of Germany.
Dr Singh became the first Indian Prime Minister to get this award, which was constituted in 1976.