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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday stressed on the need for using technology to help farmers double their income by 2022.
Modi was inaugurating the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, which is reportedly recognised as one of the top 100 research and development institutions in the world.
He added that research was needed for maximising farm output from wasteland as well as increasing output from the same acreage under initiatives such as “per drop, more crop,” another objective should be “an inch of land, and a bunch of crops.”
The Prime Minister further added that CSIR, which has contributed significantly in the area of health, needs to focus on developing affordable diagnostic solutions, especially given the onslaught of diseases like tuberculosis, chikungunya, dengue, and others, in order to prevent epidemics.
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