Shillong, Nov 23: The 3-day International Conference on “Agriculture in Hilly and Mountain Landscape: An Interdisciplinary Perspective” began at College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, Umiam, Meghalaya.
More than 300 participants registered for the conference on the first day.
Addressing the gathering as the chief guest Dr. Dinesh Kumar Marothia, President, ISAE, Mumbai, spoke about opportunity provided by this international seminar to interact with eminent key speakers and widen perspectives in the field of Agriculture and allied sector.
Dr. Anupam Mishra, Vice Chancellor, CAU(Imphal) emphasized on the achievements of the Central Agricultural University, Imphal. He also spoke about signing of MoU with national and international Universities for Academic and research collaboration.
Isawanda Laloo, Secretary to Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Government of Meghalaya, congratulated the organizers for timely implementation of the conference in agriculture in hilly and mountain landscape which will bring productive and meaningful deliberation to the farmers of Meghalaya and in Northeast Region in General.
Adding to her, Prof. Prabha Shankar Shukla, VC of NEHU, said this platform will provide solution to the farmers issues with respect to hilly and mountain landscape.
Four books namely Abstracts cum Souvenir; Research footprint of CPGS-AS; Biopesticides by Dr. P Dutta and Organic Spice Cultivation by Dr R Singh and co. were released during the programme by the dignitaries on the dais
Altogether 11 keynote papers were presented by eminent scientists in the field of agriculture, hill and mountain ecologies under six technical sessions. In the remaining days scientists from India as well as from the foreign countries like Thailand, Bangladesh, Philippines, Bhutan, Nepal and Srilanka will present papers on various topics related to the topic.
The first technical session for the keynote papers was chaired by Dr. Tej Pratap, Ex-VC, CSKHPAU, Palampur; GBPUAT, Pantnagar. The second and third technical session were said by Dr. Dhrupad Choudhury, Independent Consultant, Formerly with ICIMOD, Kathmandu. The fourth technical session was chaired Dr. Vir Singh, GBPUAT, Pantnagar.
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