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Bayer Crop Science and National Research Centre on Pomegranate sign MoU for research collaboration

22 May   2023,  New Delhi :    Bayer Crop Sciences Limited and ICAR-National Research Centre on Pomegranate, Solapur signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the public-private partnership. The main objective of the research collaboration is to develop the Integrated Pest & Disease management schedule (IDIPM) for export-quality pomegranate production and to establish a model pomegranate orchard at NRCP Solapur. Dr. Rajiv Marathe, Director, ICAR-NRCP, Solapur, and Yogesh Mohite, Crop Lead Horticulture, and plantation crops IBSL, Bayer Crop Sciences Ltd. India signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organizations. Dr. Marathe highlighted the production, protection, and processing technologies developed by ICAR-NRCP for pomegranate farmers. He further added the importance of the MoU to strengthen the public-private partnership for cash crops like pomegranate and its use for pomegranate farmers willing to export to the European market. According ...