India and Brazil made plans to strengthen the ties between the nations to work out the future agenda for the collaboration for Innovation in Science & technology diplomacy to evolve a concrete strategic plan in the area of bioTechnology education, training and research.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15th of April was apprised about an MoU signed in May, 2018 between India and Brazil.
The MoU has been signed to strengthen the ties between India and Brazil to work out the future agenda for the collaboration for innovation in Science & Technology diplomacy to evolve a concrete strategic plan in the area of biotechnology education, training and research.
The broad areas of collaboration are:
- BioMedicine and health, especially biotech based products
- agriculture breeding practices
- Biofuel and bio-energy
- Nanotechnology and Bioinstrumentation
- Biodiversity and Taxonomy