Agriculture research policy must respond to changing environment

COIMBATORE: Agriculture research policy must respond to a changing agricultural, scientific and economic environment and the new paradigm underscored pluralistic institutional structure with dominant role for private sector, a senior union agriculture ministry official said today. 


The reforms were generally proceeding at slow pace in developing countries, where there was a large proportion of small scale farmers and the public sector still dominated the research system, Agriculture Commissioner J S Sandhu said.