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PM Narendra Modi on 11 August 2024 released 109 high-yielding, climate-resilient and bio-fortified varieties of 61 crops at the India Agricultural Research Institute. These included 34 field crops and 27 horticultural crops. An announcement in this regard had been made last month by the finance minister in the budget speech. Modi also interacted with the farmers and scientists discussing the importance of these new crop varieties and stressed on the significance of value addition in agriculture, according to a government statement.