Agri Min to attend G-20 meet on May 7-8

Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh will leave tomorrow for Istanbul to attend the two-day agri-meet of G-20 nations starting May 7.

This is the second meeting of G-20 agriculture ministers. The first meeting was held in June 2011 at Paris, France.

The Agriculture Ministry in a statement said that the G-20 meeting would deliberate on global issues such as food security, food inflation, farm productivity, foodgrain loss, welfare of farmers among others.

The G-20 meeting would make efforts to come out with a strategic policy to address key farm issues.

G-20 nations include Russia, France, Brazil, China, Australia, Japan, Turkey among others.