Bengaluru, June 23 -- India's food security will remain anchored in its villages and cannot be sustained by urban centres alone, former Nestle India Chairman and Managing Director Suresh Narayanan has said, stressing the urgent need to make agriculture a "viable, attractive and technology-driven" vocation to draw younger generations back to farming.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Reimagining Agro-Food Processing Conference organised by the Bengaluru Chamber of Industry and Commerce on Tuesday, Narayanan said the transformation of agriculture must go beyond government intervention and involve a broader ecosystem of institutions and industry.
He said India's rural economy continues to be the foundation of food security, even as rapid urba...