Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy has said there is a need for intensified research on developing seed to meet the growing needs of food production and productivity with nutritious values in the backdrop of growing ecological imbalances.
Addressing virtually a meet on development of crops through biotechnology organised by National Seed Association of India here on Friday he said there was no alternative to mother and food and the food has be produced from cultivating mother earth. He said agriculture was the backbone of the Indian economy and it had made great strides from depending on other countries for its food needs at the time of Independence.
The country had achieved enviable progress and achieved self reliance in the production of fruits, flowers, dairy products and fish apart from food crops but there was need to achieve more considering the growing needs and diminishing land resources on one hand and growing ecological imbalances on the other, the minister said adding that quality seed would play a key role in the development of agriculture sector.
