NOT SUCH A HUMBLE POTATO!

The plan is for a better potato for India, via Israeli tech. "Distribution, not famine, is what ails masses of the second largest country’s poor — and Israel has the solutions." Dr Kumar was speaking during the recent ID2 (Israeli Designed International Development) conference, which brought together 70 entrepreneurs, academics, and students to discuss how to develop solutions for some of the world’s big problems – like hunger in India. Kumar came to Israel in 2010 on an 8 month Foreign Ministry scholarship, but upon finding Israel as a hub of innovative technologies, he decided to stay on and is continuing his research project there.

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