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National Technology Day: ‘Need to tackle today’s agri problems with modern tech’

By, Lucknow
May 10, 2023 04:43 PM IST

Prof Pareek was delivering a special lecture on ‘Casting Indian Agriculture @2047’ on the occasion of the National Technology Day, at the NBRI, Lucknow, on Wednesday.

“Challenges like increasing global population, climate change and food security are things that need to be worked upon. Decreasing numbers of farmers due to low-income opportunities in agriculture with increasing numbers of labourers is another challenge in this direction, which needs to be addressed,” said prof Ashwani Pareek, executive director, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali and chief executive officer, Centre of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali.

Prof. Ashwani Pareek, executive director, NABI, Mohali, delivering a special lecture ‘Casting Indian Agriculture @2047’ at CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow. (HT Photo)
Prof. Ashwani Pareek, executive director, NABI, Mohali, delivering a special lecture ‘Casting Indian Agriculture @2047’ at CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow. (HT Photo)

Prof Pareek was speaking as the chief guest at the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow while delivering a special lecture on ‘Casting Indian Agriculture @2047’ on the occasion of the National Technology Day on Wednesday.

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“To meet the food needs of the world’s approximately nine billion people, we must transform our agricultural system using modern techniques and technologies such as CRISPAR-CAS, cross breeding, mutagenesis, polyploidy, transgenics, genome editing, vertical farming, and so on,” he added while talking about some of the recent achievements: Golden Rice, Bt Cotton, plant-based vaccines, gluten-free rice, etc.

“Today every person is connected to technology in one way or another. The main purpose of celebrating this day is to popularise and showcase our technologies among the public at large,” said Ajit Kumar Shasany, director, CSIR-NBRI.

The Institute and its laboratories also remained open for the public where more than 250 students from various schools/colleges visited the institute and interacted with scientists.

Govt schools’ students to visit labs

The institute will also remain open on Thursday (May 11) where 100 students of Class 9 to 12 of government schools will be taken to NBRI and National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) by the Council of Science and Technology, U.P, as an outreach event to promote technology.

“Students of Government Jubilee Inter College, Lucknow, Government Girls Inter College, Chhoti Jubilee, Ramadhin Singh Inter College and other schools will be participating in this programme and certificates will also be provided by the CSTUP to students,” said Sumit Kumar Shrivastava, scientific officer, Indira Gandhi Planetarium, Lucknow.

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