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Indian foodgrain production has increased from 51mt in 1950-51 to 328 mt in 2023-24. However, India’s 111th position out of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index calls for serious and urgent consideration. Dr Sanjay Jambhulkar, Former Head of Mutation Breeding Section at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai delivered a lecture on Use of Nuclear Technology in Agriculture and Food at Ahmedabad University as part of its Seminar and Lecture Series.
Environmental vagaries like unseasonal rain and drought due to climate change have significantly impacted agriculture. India’s precarious position on the hunger index makes the success of agriculture in the country even more pre-eminent. Dr Jambhulkar sheds light on the necessity of developing climate resilient high-yielding varieties with enhanced nutrition and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has identified food and agriculture as the key areas that require attention and has been making peaceful use of nuclear energy in those areas. It has been actively working on mutation breeding since the 1960s and developed 70 high-yielding varieties in various plants. These technologies could transform India’s hunger problem and aid its farmers hugely.
Indian foodgrain production has increased from 51mt in 1950-51 to 328 mt in 2023-24. However, India’s 111th position out of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index calls for serious and urgent consideration. Dr Sanjay Jambhulkar, Former Head of Mutation Breeding Section at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai delivered a lecture on Use of Nuclear Technology in Agriculture and Food at Ahmedabad University as part of its Seminar and Lecture Series.
Environmental vagaries like unseasonal rain and drought due to climate change have significantly impacted agriculture. India’s precarious position on the hunger index makes the success of agriculture in the country even more pre-eminent. Dr Jambhulkar sheds light on the necessity of developing climate resilient high-yielding varieties with enhanced nutrition and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has identified food and agriculture as the key areas that require attention and has been making peaceful use of nuclear energy in those areas. It has been actively working on mutation breeding since the 1960s and developed 70 high-yielding varieties in various plants. These technologies could transform India’s hunger problem and aid its farmers hugely.
