2 Rupees Globalizing Indian Agriculture

Issued to mark the 1995 Food and Agriculture Organization initiative promoting agricultural integration into global markets, this coin belongs to a broader series of FAO-themed Indian commemoratives that the Reserve Bank produced across several decades. India's participation in such programs reflected its post-1991 liberalization posture — the economy had been opened to foreign investment just four years earlier under Manmohan Singh's reforms, and the FAO branding gave the government a convenient vehicle to project that shift in official coinage.