Agri tie-up: Bill Gates to visit AP in November

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will visit the state on November 17 to participate in the national-level agriculture conference in Visakhapatnam.
Agri tie-up: Bill Gates to visit AP in November

VIJAYAWADA: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will visit the state on November 17 to participate in the national-level agriculture conference in Visakhapatnam. While the conference will be held for three days from November 15, Bill Gates will attend the meet on the concluding day.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had already agreed forward to partner with the Andhra Pradesh government in the agriculture sector. Bill Gates will extend cooperation to the state on behalf of the foundation for development of agriculture.

Speaking to mediapersons at the Interim Government Complex in Velagapudi on Friday, Agriculture Minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy said that the state, which already stood top in conducting soil tests and gathering information of standing crops, will witness further development in the agriculture sector by taking the technological support to be extended by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

He said that during the conference in November, the state government and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will enter into an agreement, which will be beneficial to the state, particularly to small and marginal farmers.

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