HYDERABAD: During his visit to CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) in Hyderabad on Saturday, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan laid the foundation stone for the ‘scale up facility for agrochemicals’, proposed to be constructed at the pilot plant complex of CSIR-IICT.
The facility is established as part of an agro-mission project under CSIR. The agro-mission project and this state-of-the-art facility is focused on farmers’ interests to develop sustainable agricultural practices using agrochemicals.
With a proven record of having developed several generic crop protection chemicals, the organisation is equipped to take new challenges in this area.