India, LatAm look for food cooperation

India: India and Latin America began Sunday a three-day meeting on food security aimed at drawing up a future bilateral cooperation to fight against hunger and poverty.

Attending the meeting, organized by the powerful Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative (IFFCO) and the Indian Government there are representatives from a dozen of Latin American and Caribbean countries. Cuba attends as a guest of honour.

The meeting’s goal is to establish permanent talks between both regions and to identify cooperation spheres.

Food security lies in a sustainable agriculture, said P.K. Bansal, Indian Minister of Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs at the opening ceremony of the event in this capital.

Professor M.S. Swaminathan, known as the father of the Green Revolution in India stated that both parts have a lot of experience to share.

He highlighted successes of the Zero Hunger Program began by Brazil’s President Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva in 2003 and other projects developed in Chile.

Cuban Agriculture Deputy Minister Jose Puente said that both regions could fight together against hunger.

New Delhi, Prensa Latina