Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that India's Bioeconomy recorded 12 times increase in last 10 years.
Speaking after inaugurating the ‘National Plant Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Facility’ at National Institute of Plant Genome research (NIPGR) on the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Institute, the Minister said, India’s bioeconomy stood at just about $10 Billion, today it is $120 Billion. In just about ten years, it has gone up by 12 times and we look forward to having plus $300 Billion by 2030, he said.
This has been possible because of a favourable milieu provided at the policy planning level under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, he added.