Prince Charles announces new dedicated fund for Indian farmers

February 03, 2016 21:55

Prince Charles has unveiled plans for a new dedicated fund, likely to be worth millions of pounds, to be created to help farmers in India break out of poverty.

The heir to the British throne announced the plan in his capacity as the Founder and President of the British Asian Trust, which works towards empowering lives in South Asia by harnessing the strengths of the South Asian diaspora in the UK.

"An area of work that I was particularly excited to see get underway in recent months is my trust taking a more in- depth look at the issues faced by rural farmers in India with the aim of establishing a dedicated fund to implement the kinds of intervention that the research clearly points out is

needed," the 67-year-old royal said at BAT's gala annual dinner at Natural History Museum here last night.

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