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Abstract
The study conduced on South Asian countries is focused on three issues, viz. (a) research priorities in
agriculture, (b) level of research investment, and (c) focus of research investments to attain food-secured
South Asia. The results of this empirical exercise have suggested that (a) cereals, horticulture, livestock
and fisheries in commodity groups and rice and milk as commodities should receive greater attention in
resource allocation at South Asia level with certain minor variations across the countries, (b) prioritization
exercises need to explicitly target poor as otherwise their needs will continue to remain under-funded, and
at least 2-3 times increase (if the AgGDP growth is assumed at 2.1%) and 3-4 times increase (if the AgGDP
growth is assumed at 4%) is needed in funding support to these countries in agricultural research and
education to attain food and nutritional security.