Representatives of State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) on Tuesday called for developing coordination between the public and the private sector to increase agriculture production. They were participating in a meeting at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar, which was also attended by representatives of research institutes, agro-industries and entrepreneurs and progressive farmers. In his inaugural speech, CCSHAU Vice-Chancellor Dr.K.S.Khokhar emphasised the need for public-private partnership to achieve Millennium Development Goal of poverty alleviation, food security and improvement in nutritional status in the country. He said that the State and Central governments had already initiated steps in this direction and constituted working groups to seek a comprehensive report on agricultural production as well as value addition and marketing in agriculture. He added that there was no dearth of technology in the country to increase agriculture production but its commercial application was not possible without collaboration with the private sector. Dr. Khokhar also urged the farm scientists to focus their research on meeting the need for food grains for the teeming population. He emphasised on developing GM crop varieties to achieve food and nutritional security.