The United States and India have launched the third India-US-Africa triangular agricultural training programme at the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE).
This partnership, supported by the US Government’s global hunger and food security initiative — Feed the Future — aims to improve agricultural productivity and support the market institutions in Kenya, Liberia, and Malawi.
About 180 African agricultural professionals will be trained over the next two years at MANAGE in Hyderabad and Chaudhury Charan Singh National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) in Jaipur.
US Consul General in Hyderabad, Michael Mullins, said under the strategic partnership between the Governments of India and the United States to improve agricultural productivity in Africa, the triangular engagement will “leverage India’s experience, expertise, and resources, as well as share innovations and technologies to address food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty in the three African countries.”
At the event, Mullins was joined by High Commissioner of the Republic of Malawi to India, Perks Ligoya; Joint Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture, Sanjeev Gupta (via videoconferencing); United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Mission Director, Kathryn Stevens; and Director General of MANAGE, Bandla Srinivas, according to a press release.