Saturday, March 04, 2006

Mr. Bush Visits Farm University in Hydrabad

According to the Indian online news service The Hindhu , The US President was treated to a slice of the Indian rural life when he visited the Ancharya N G Ranga Agriculture University in Hydrabad. Hydrabad is historically famous for its rice cultivation.

Mr. Bush accompanied by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy was shown an exhibition of a wide variety of friuts, vegetables, pulses and organic crops. The President spoke with farmers who were delighted to have the world's most powerful person in their midst.

With the rapid development of Information technology, maufacturing and service industries , India has shed much it's historical dependence on agriculture. But still most of the important industries are centred around the cities and about two-thirds of the Indian workforce is in agriculture in the vast landscape of rural India.

Farming is the primary activity in much of the rural areas and villages and high level visits from world leaders draws attention and focus on intiatives of coorperation to boost agricultural exchanges and lift more people out of the poverty trap.

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