Australia Backs Indian Food Security Research

Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Stephen Smith, has used a visit to an Australian-funded agricultural research project in India to emphasise the need to protect the world’s food crops from the adverse impact of climate change.

Australia and India have several joint research programs that are applying the latest advances in biotechnology and plant breeding to develop improved crop varieties able to sustain high yields under dry conditions. Indian and Australian farmers share similar agro-climate conditions in their grain growing regions.

Link to media release

http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/releases/2008/fa-s141_08.html