Agriculture to be pillar of US-India co-operation: Clinton

New Delhi, July 19 (PTI) Stating that India was well
positioned to help it lead the fight against hunger, the US
Sunday said agriculture will be the strongest of the five
pillars of co-operation the Obama administration was seeking
with New Delhi.

"We will be announcing the five pillars of our
cooperation (after talks tomorrow). And one of the strongest
and most important will be agriculture," US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton told reporters after a visit to the Indian
Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), where she toured the
agriculture research site.

Recalling 50 years of US-Indo partnership in agriculture,
Clinton said, "We have to work together because it is
imperative that we invest in science that will increase crop
yields."

"We have collaborated over more than 50 years and today
we called to collaborate once again," she said.

Areas of collaboration she highlighted included linking
farms and markets so that farmers can sell their products,
expanding the export of technology and training to bring more
assistance to farmers, and strengthening the response to
climate change, which threatens the waterways that sustain
agriculture in many parts of the world including South Asia.
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