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Indo-Israel Agricultural Project – IIAP

The Indo-Israeli Agriculture Project (IIAP) is a two-sided organization set up in 2006 among Israel and Indian governments. India has picked Israel as a G2G level key accomplice in the field of agribusiness. It was set up in collaboration with National Horticulture Mission, National Horticulture Board and Indian States Horticulture Departments, and Israel's Agency for International Development (MASHAV) and CINADCO which gives non-industrial nations Israel's involvement with improvement and arranging.

IIAP intends to set up different Centers of Excellence (CoE) in different Indian states with the goal to give a stage to a fast exchange of innovation to the Indian ranchers determined to build usefulness and working on the nature of produce and augmenting their pay, by presenting crop variety, expanding efficiency, further developing development methods, water system and fertigation and improving water use productivity in agriculture. The Federal and state Indian partners are driving the IIAP organization by characterizing the key harvests and authorizing the action. The Israeli partner MASHAV, guides the norm of the CoE and moves the information into the IIAP. The idea of the focuses is three-sided: Applied Research, SMS (topic trained professional) Field Extension Officer and the Progressive Farmer. CoE goes about as a gathering point for the scholarly community, government and ranchers to collaborate towards accomplishments.

•          Post-Harvest Management (organic product and vegetables)

•          Irrigation and fertigation advances

•          Introduction of new assortments

•          Plant insurance (nematodes, microorganisms)

•          Pollination advances

•          Water the executives advancements for agribusiness, including water re-use

•          Other exercises as commonly characterized in the Steering Committee

Feature by Prime Minister - VivaTech

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi conveyed the feature address at the fifth version of VivaTech today through video meeting. The Prime Minister was welcomed as a Guest of Honor to convey the feature address at VivaTech 2021, one of the biggest computerized and startup occasions in Europe, held in Paris consistently since 2016.

Talking on the event, the Prime Minister said that India and France have been working intently on a wide scope of subjects. Among these, innovation and advanced are arising spaces of participation. It is the need of great importance that such collaboration keeps on becoming further. It won't just assistance our countries yet additionally the world on the loose. Shri Modi referenced Infosys giving technical support to the French Open competition and coordinated effort including French organizations like Atos, Capgemini and India's TCS and Wipro as instances of IT ability of the two nations serving organizations and residents from one side of the planet to the other.

The Prime Minister brought up that where show falls flat, advancement makes a difference. During the pandemic, said the Prime Minister, advanced innovation helped us adapt, associate, solace and control center. India's general and remarkable bio-metric advanced personality framework – Aadhar – assisted with offering ideal monetary help to poor people. "We could supply free food to 800 million individuals, and convey cooking-fuel sponsorships to numerous families. We in India had the option to operationalise two public advanced schooling programes-Swayam and Diksha – in fast an ideal opportunity to help understudies", the Prime Minister educated.

The Prime Minister adulated the job of the beginning up area in gathering the test of the pandemic. The private area assumed a vital part in tending to the lack of PPE units, veils, testing packs and so on Specialists embraced tele-medication amazingly so some COVID and other non-COVID issues could be tended to basically. Two antibodies are being made in India and more are in the turn of events or preliminary stage. The Prime pastor demonstrated that native IT stage, Arogya-Setu empowered successful contact following. The COWIN advanced stage has effectively guaranteed antibodies to millions.

The head administrator said that India is home to one of the world's biggest beginning up eco frameworks. A few unicorns have come up in the new years. India offers what trend-setters and financial backers need. He welcomed the world to put resources into India dependent on the five mainstays of: Talent, Market, Capital, Eco-framework and, Culture of receptiveness. The Prime Minister likewise focused on the qualities like, Indian ability pool, cell phone infiltration and Seven Seventy-Five million web clients, most noteworthy and modest information utilization on the planet and the most noteworthy utilization of web-based media to welcome financial backers to India.

Declaration of Global Peace Index

This is the fifteenth release of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which positions 163 free states and domains as indicated by their degree of serenity. Created by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world's driving proportion of worldwide tranquility. This report presents the most complete information driven examination to-date on patterns in harmony, its financial worth, and how to foster tranquil social orders.

The GPI covers 99.7 percent of the total populace, utilizing 23 subjective and quantitative markers from profoundly regarded sources, and measures the condition of harmony across three areas: the degree of Societal Safety and Security, the degree of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict, and the level of Militarisation.

The current year's outcomes show that the normal degree of worldwide serenity crumbled by 0.07 percent. This is the 10th weakening in quietness over the most recent thirteen years, with 87 nations improving, and 73 account decays; be that as it may, the adjustment of score is the second littlest throughout the entire existence of the file. The 2021 GPI uncovers a world wherein the contentions and emergencies that arose in the previous decade have started to lessen, just to be supplanted with another flood of pressure and vulnerability because of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising strains between a considerable lot of the significant forces.

The full effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on serenity is as yet unfurling. While a few types of brutality declined temporarily, developing anxiety with lockdowns and rising financial vulnerability brought about common turmoil expanding in 2020. More than 5,000 pandemic-related rough occasions were recorded between January 2020 and April 2021. It is still too soon to completely measure the drawn out impacts of the pandemic on harmony. Notwithstanding, the changing financial conditions in numerous countries improves the probability of political unsteadiness and brutal exhibitions.