The Hindu Business Line : `Farm growth vital to reduce poverty'

Agricultural growth has a multiplier effect in reducing poverty. In sub-Saharan Africa, a 10 per cent increase in yields brings a 9 per cent decrease in the number of people living on less than $1 a day, according to Dr William Dar, Director General of Icrisat (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics).

Addressing the conference of Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in New Delhi, he said the new technologies of Green Revolution in India in the 1960s increased the average income of the poor farmers by 90 per cent and that of the landless labourers by 125 per cent.

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