Narendra Modi is now the second Indian PM after Manmohan Singh to win the Agricola Medal, the highest honour of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Narendra Modi is now the second Indian PM after Manmohan Singh to win the Agricola Medal, the highest honour of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Narendra Modi is now the second Indian PM after Manmohan Singh to win the Agricola Medal, the highest honour of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday became the second Indian PM to receive the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) highest honour, the Agricola Medal.

"It reflects India’s unwavering commitment to food security, sustainable development and the hard work of those associated with our agriculture sector," he wrote in an X post.

The PM also dedicated the victory to India's farmers.

Modi is now the second Indian PM to win the prestigious prize from the UN organisation after Monmohan Singh in 2008.

Singh had shown “exemplary vision and resolve” in spur agricultural development and reduce hunger and poverty in India, the FAO had said at the time.

(More details are awaited.)

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