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A five-day gathering of BRICS subordinate countries began connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) successful Indore, Madhya Pradesh focussing connected issues specified arsenic nutrient security, climate-friendly astute agriculture, cultivation trade, and husbandman welfare.
As portion of this conference, held nether India's BRICS chairmanship, the Agriculture Working Group volition clasp deliberations till June 11, 2026 with officials from subordinate countries.
India's Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DA&FW) Secretary Atish Chandra led the inaugural league of the meeting. Following the official-level meeting, the BRICS Agriculture Ministers volition conscionable connected June 12 and 13.
BRICS is an intergovernmental organisation comprising 11 large emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Indonesia.
“The five-day league volition sermon topics specified arsenic nutrient security, husbandman welfare, nutrition, climate-friendly astute agriculture, facilitating planetary cultivation trade, proviso chains, integer agriculture, research, cognition exchange, artificial quality (AI), and robotics,” officials said.
“A associated declaration volition beryllium issued aft the BRICS Agriculture Ministers scope a consensus,” they said. The meeting, taking spot successful Indore, the economical superior of Madhya Pradesh and India's cleanest city, coincides with the State government's declaration of 2026 arsenic the 'Year of Farmer Welfare'.
