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$100 million loan agreement with ADB to increase horticulture productivity in India, will get this benefit
ADB: Juhi Mukherjee, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Kai Wei Yeo, Charge d'Affaires, ADB's India Resident Mission, signed the loan agreement as part of the 'Building India's Clean Plants Program'. Let's know about it.
India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $98 million loan agreement to increase horticulture productivity in the country. The Finance Ministry said on Friday that the agreement will help in establishing disease-free planting material systems, increasing crop yield, quality, and resilience to climate change.
According to the ministry, "The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank today inked a loan of about $ 98 million on improving horticulture farmers' access to certified, disease-free plant material and better technologies aimed at giving major yield, better quality and climate resilience improvement for horticulture products."
The loan agreement was signed under the "Building India's Clean Plants Programme", by Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Juhi Mukherjee, and Charge d'Affaires, ADB's India Resident Mission, Kai Wei Yeo.
