Varanasi, Oct. 15 -- The ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR), Varanasi, on Wednesday organised FPO Sangam-2025 under the Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) project, highlighting the transformative potential of vegetable cultivation in driving rural income growth and economic prosperity.

The chief guest of this program, BL Meena, ACS (Horticulture and Food Processing), Government of Uttar Pradesh, said that this seminar will revolutionise vegetable production. He emphasised that the seed replacement rate in agriculture is very low; therefore, replacing old varieties of crops with new varieties is the need of the hour. He informed that 125 centres of excellence have been established under the government's Cluster Development Sch...