PM lauds TS farmer in his ‘Mann ki Baat’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has complimented a farmer from Telangana, Chintala Venkat Reddy, for developing breeds of rice and wheat with vitamin D and getting patent rights for it from the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Speaking to people over All India Radio on Sunday as part of the 21st episode of his ‘Mann ki Baat’ 2.0 programme, he termed the achievement of Mr. Venkat Reddy as one of the innumerable examples of people contributing to ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’, which he said has become a sentiment flowing in the hearts of the common folk. “When we talk of science, then many a time people restrict it to physics-chemistry or labs. But, the spread of science is much more than that and there is a lot of contribution of the power of science in the Atmanirbhar Bharat Campaign”, the Prime Minister said underscoring the need to move science forward with the mantra of ‘Lab to Land’ .