Australia has evinced keen interest in assisting Haryana in technology transfer for best practices in agriculture, silo technology for food storage, and in the fields of dairying, micro irrigation, fisheries and animal husbandry.
This came out in the meeting of Australian High Commissioner to India, Harinder Sidhu, who called on Haryana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Om Prakash Dhankar, on Thursday.
Sidhu also invited Dhankar to participate in the Agri Summit to be held in Sydney from June 6 to 12.
Dhankar accepted the invitation and assured her that a delegation led by him would attend the Summit.
Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Abhilaksh likhi gave detailed information regarding possibilities of cooperation in the fields of agriculture, horticulture, dairying, fisheries, agricultural marketing and peri-agriculture.
Others present in the meeting included Managing Director, Haryana Warehousing Corporation, Brijendra Singh, Chief Administrator, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, J. Ganesan, Director General, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department, G.S. Jakhar, Director General, Horticulture Department, Arjun Saini and other senior officers.