Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that everyone should respect farmers as it is they who provide food to all of us, Padma Shri Awardee Agricultural Scientist Subbanna Ayyappan said that though many countries in the world had rich gold deposits, they were woefully short of food grains. He was speaking at 'mPower Talk,' a talk show organised at Builders Association of India (BAI) auditorium in Vishweshwaranagar on Saturday.
Pointing out though many sectors shut down when the COVID pandemic broke out two years ago, the farming and health sector functioned non-stop during the crisis, Aiyyappan said that more than 30 percent population of the country is dependent on agriculture, contributing 18 percent to the GDP’s growth.
