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A five-day gathering of the BRICS grouping volition commence successful Indore connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) to sermon nutrient security, astute farming, planetary cultivation commercialized and husbandman welfare, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said connected Monday (June 8, 2026).
The discussions nether India’s presidency volition see a three-day agriculture moving radical gathering from June 9 and a two-day BRICS ministerial gathering from June 12, helium said.
BRICS is an intergovernmental organisation comprising eleven large emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia.
Highlighting the value of the meeting, Mr. Chouhan said BRICS is simply a precise beardown dependable of the processing countries successful the world.
“Around fractional of the world’s colonisation dwells successful BRICS countries. It has 42% of the planetary cultivation onshore and accounts for much than 42% of the produce. Of the 58 crore farmers crossed the world, 70% tiny cultivators unrecorded successful BRICS nations,” helium said.
The Union Minister said the five-day gathering volition deliberate connected nutrient security, husbandman welfare, nutrition, climate-resilient astute agriculture, facilitation of planetary cultivation trade, proviso chains, “digital agriculture”, research, cognition exchange, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
He said a associated declaration volition beryllium issued aft statement among the BRICS Agriculture Ministers. Mr. Chouhan recalled that India has presided implicit BRICS meetings successful 2012, 2016 and 2021.
Last month, Mr. Chouhan had told reporters successful Indore that the BRICS meeting, to beryllium held nether the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would beryllium to beryllium a historical accidental for the planetary agriculture sector. “It volition supply a caller absorption to the world,” helium had said.
Coincidentally, the gathering is being held successful Madhya Pradesh’s fiscal superior astatine a clip erstwhile the State authorities has declared 2026 arsenic the Agriculture Welfare Year.
