India, China to discuss agriculture, GM food
March 24th, 2010 - 9:55 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Moving beyond strategic issues, India and China will explore avenues of cooperation in agriculture and biotechnology when Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu holds talks with Indian officials later this week.
Hui, also the top Chinese official in charge of agriculture, arrives here on a two-day visit Friday.
The two sides are expected to discuss cooperation in technologies relating to agriculture. Issues relating to the use of genetically modified (GM) food, a touchy issue in both countries, in agriculture will also figure in talks.
Hui, a member of the powerful politburo of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, will visit the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi and the Central Institute of Cotton Research in Nagpur.
Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh is expected to meet Hui to discuss the Chinese experience in afforestation and review their cooperation in the area of climate change.
The two countries had collaborated in the negotiations on climate change at the UN conference in December last year and played a key role in the last-minute agreement on the Copenhagen accord to curb global warming.
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