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5F FARMING – CONFERENCE 2019

Program

The Program is organized for Practicing Plant breeders, Industry leaders, Crop Science Researchers, Academic faculty and leaders, Farmers/Agriculturists, Opinion leaders and Policy experts, Government officials/Administrators, Marketing & Extension professionals and Students.

  • 06:30 PM Indian Agriculture: Challenges & solutions
  • 07:30 PM Group Dinner @Hotel Vits
  • 09:30 - 11:00 Session- 1, Inaugaral Session
  • 09:30 AM Welcome Speech
  • 09:40 AM Introduction about conference
  • 09:50 AM Felicitation
  • 10:20 AM Key Note Speaker:Indian Agriculture: challenges & solutions
  • 10:30 AM Doubling of farmer income in Maharashtra: scope and strategy
  • 11:00 AM Vote Of Thanks
  • 11:10 AM Tea / Coffe Breaks
  • 11:30 - 1:30 Session- 2, New Technologies that Augment Crop Breeding
  • 11:30 AM Enhancing crop resistance against abiotic stresses alongside nutritional quality Merging genomics and metabolomics
  • 12:00 PM Agricultural innovations: Opportunities and challenges
  • 12:15 PM Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Future Farming
  • 12:30 PM Role of Molecular markers in crop improvement for 21st century
  • 12:45 PM Tilling to Genome Editing: Genomics-enabled New Breeding Technologies
  • 12:45 PM Efficiency in Plant breeding: how to integrate new and old tools
  • 1:20 - 1:30 Felicitation of the speakers
  • 1:30 - 1:40 Lunch @ Hotel Vits
  • 02:30 - 4:30 Session- 3, Nurture to realize Nature’s Potential
  • 12:45 PM Field experience in unlocking potential and value creation
  • 03:00 PM Crop Wide Relatives & Virus resistance to secure farmers income
  • 03:00 PM Quality Forages: Paving the way for dairy management of small scale farmers
  • 03:00 PM Sustainable farming model with advanced irrigation system for small farmers
  • 4:00 PM Successful Drip Irrigation in Rice – water conservation and high yield
  • 4:10 PM Mutation Breeding in Flowers & Impact on Farmers Income
  • 4:30 - 5:00 Tea/Coffee break
  • 5:00 PM Planetary Talk GM Technology infusion in Indian Agriculture Opportunities and Challenge
  • 6:00 - 6:10 Felicitation of the speakers
  • 7:00 - 9:00 Group dinner @ Hotel Vits

Session- 4, Policy, Skill & Infrastructure Development

  • 09:30 AM Journey of Seed industry, current status & future prospective in Indian Context
  • 9:45 AM Increasing Farmer’s share in Food value chain
  • 10:00 AM Improving village infrastructure for better conservation & yields
  • 10:00 AM Precision Harvesting Machines for Cotton & Horticulture
  • 04:00 PM Knowledge Transfer to Small Farmers for increased & sustainable Income
  • 10:45 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee break
  • 11:00 AM Role of seed industries for improving farmer’s life
  • 11:15 AM Skill development at Graduate & Postgraduate level to help students to be industry ready
  • 11:30 - 12:30 Disscussion
  • 1:30 - 2:30 Lunch @ Hotel Vits
  • 2:30 - 3:30 Session- 4, Marketing Challenges for Small Farmers
  • 2:30 PM Securing higher farm income through Crop Insurance
  • 2:50 PM Farmers right and their stand in current agriculture
  • 3:00 PM Challenges faced by small farmers to market vegetables
  • 3:10 PM Hindrance in Agri-produce markets
  • 3:20 - 3:50 Disscussion
  • 10 Min Felicitation of the speakers
  • 3:50 - 4:00 Tea/Coffee break
  • Session- 5, Valedictory Session

  • 4:00 - 4:20 Secretary reads out a report of the conference with recommendations
  • 4:20 - 4:50 Closing remarks by members on the dais and then from delegates.
  • 4:50 - 5:00 General Vote of Thanks & National Anthem.

Organizing Committee Members

DR. K K NARAYANAN

CHAIR

Co-Founder Director ATPBR

DR. M KACHOLE

CO-CHAIR

Co-Founder Director ATPBR

DR. S K TIKOO

CHAIR-PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Co-Founder Tierra Seeds Science Pvt Ltd

Dr. Aparna Tiwari

Secretary

Co- Founder and Director - ATPBR

Dr. Sharan Angadi

Member

Advisor - Ankur Seeds Pvt Ltd

DR. RAVI PATIL

Member

DEOGIRI COLLAGE

Dr. Elcio Perpetuo Guimaraes

Member

R & D Director - Embrapa (Brazil)

Dr.Chandrashekhar Chaporka

Member

Advisor - Mahyco

Dr. Dileep Pokle

Member

Emirtus professor at MGM-IBT

Dr. Krishna Prasad

Member

Tierra Seed Science Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Sameer Agrawal

Member

MD - Bejo Sheetal Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Sanjay Harke

Member

Director-MGM IBT

Mr. Baburao Dhokane

Member

Artist (BAMU)

Dr. Anil Bukhtar

Member

Professor – Vivekanand Collage

Mr. Ravichandran Vanchinathan

Member

Director at Global Farmers Network

Dr. Girish Patil

Member

Manager R & D - East West Seeds India Pvt Ltd.

Dr. Arvind K. Mishrai

Member

Co- Founder and Director - ATPBR

Dr. R.M Sundaram

Member

Principal Scientist (ICAR-IIRR)

The organizing committee has decided on Aurangabad as a first choice to start the series of the conference because

  • It is centrally located
  • Several seed companies are located in and around Aurangabad
  • Rich historical and heritage prospect
  • Good climate
  • Well connected by rail/road/air

Venue

VITS LUXURY BUSINESS HOTEL,
VEDANT NAGAR, RAILWAY STATION ROAD,
AURANGABAD, MAHARASHTRA 43100

secretary.conference2019@gmail.com

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