New Delhi: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will push for crop diversification under its roadmap for 2047, with the area under rice to be capped at 53-55 million hectares and a similar reduction planned for wheat, while expanding acreage under maize, nutritional cereals, pulses and horticulture crops.
ICAR Director General M L Jat said the diversification plan has been worked out in consultation with NITI Aayog. To push demand-driven research towards this and other goals, ICAR has formed 52 task teams cutting across its divisions and institutions, each working under a defined "theory of change" framework, he said.
