Union Minister of Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh met Shri Jon Georg Dale, Norwegian Minister for Agriculture in New Delhi to lend strength on the growing bilateral cooperation in fisheries between the two countries.
They discussed ways of adopting smart fishing techniques; to explore and develop technologies to capture underutilized fish resources; to increase the export of marine products.
The Agriculture Minister appreciated the research work being done on CLIMAWATER, CLIMARICE and ClimaAdapt in Andhra Pradesh, Telengana and Tamil Nadu states in India by Norwegian Institute of Bio-economy Research (NIBIO), Ministry of Agriculture.
India’s trade in agricultural commodities with Norway in 2014-15 included US$ 17.65 million in exports which increased to US$25.57 million the next year. Imports were of the order of US$ 2.48 million in 2015-16. Both the countries can, however, do much more in bilateral trade.