UP Government's microbiome plan ready, benefits to extend from healthcare to agriculture

Lucknow, Oct 22 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Government has prepared a draft to improve healthcare services, promote environmental protection, and make agriculture more sustainable through science and technology. The draft emphasises microbiome technology, used in areas such as monitoring infections in hospitals, identifying antimicrobial resistance, controlling water pollution, managing waste, and improving the quality of agricultural products. Through the draft titled 'Uttar Pradesh State Specific Note on Microbiome Technologies', UP Government has recommended linking the technology with healthcare, clean water, sanitation, food security and sustainable agriculture. The initiative will begin as a pilot project at a few selected institutions across the…