India, US launch agri training programme with Africa

Hyderabad: The US 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 market institutions in Kenya, Liberia, and Malawi.

A total of 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.

The US Consul General in Hyderabad Michael Mullins said that, 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.”