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.

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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.