Himachal: 9th National Seminar
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9th National Seminar on "Doubling Farmers Income by 2022: Challenges, Opportunities and Way Forward" is being organized at Career Point University, Hamirpur, H.P on February 15-17, 2020. The seminar aims at sharing and discussing the experiences of the policy makers, administrators, academicians, researchers, extension professionals, practitioners, agribusiness companies, NGOs, farmers organizations and all other stakeholders involved in welfare of farming community on a common platform with an objective to maximize benefits from the available opportunities through enhancing the ability of farmers to face challenge and empowering them to equip themselves for doubling farmers income.
To achieve this ambitious objective, the emphasis is on adopting a multi-dimensional strategy, which includes:
*Improving farm productivity through Hi-Tech agriculture
*Enhancing input use efficiency-conservation agriculture
*Cool chain development to prevent post-harvest losses
*Value addition through food processing and post-harvest management
*Farmer-led innovation (FLI)
*Market-led extension
*Climate smart agriculture (CSA)-Artificial intelligence, Big Data management, cloud computing, use of drone
*Nutrition sensitive agriculture
The seminar would be of great utility for researchers, academicians, policy planners, NGO's/grassroots mass mobilizers and students having interest in sustainable development in general and improving the quality of life of people in particular.
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