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Andhra Pradesh Government has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, State of Iowa, US to promote research and development in the fields of science, agriculture and life sciences.
The State Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his delegation on the fourth day of their US trip will visit some farms in Des Moines in Iowa State to understand best practises.
Referring to the MoC, Naidu said that it would help in increasing the seed production and research, leading to increase in crop output. Bill Northey, Secretary of Agriculture of Iowa said “ Iowa and Andhra Pradesh share a lot of similarities of which agriculture is one. Together we make a commitment today to collaborate to make farmers lives better, agricultural to fare better and to wipe out hunger from the world,"
Others present on the occasion were Kenneth M Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation, Craig Hill, director of World Food Prize Foundation, Neeta Bushan, Consul General of India in Chicago.
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