INDIA
2007 31 July - 03 August, Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi e-Agriculture 2007 is introduced as a new track in the country’s biggest ICT event, eINDIA2007. The event seeks to provide a national level platform to policy makers, corporate stakeholders, researchers, ICT professionals working in domain of agriculture and allied fields, and farmers. The conference is conceived as an opportunity of great importance in light of improving progress of our economy and still more important in context of our primary sector as it faces a host of challenges ahead. It will be instrumental in the development of an approach, to make best use of the contemporary breakthroughs in ICT, for an integrated development of the sector. With rapid structural changes happening in Agriculture, the focus is shifting from production to technological interventions, management of finance, capacity building, and marketing. Developing farm-level information systems to fulfill these needs is a major challenge, which calls for a paradigmatic shift in strategies.
Conference Key Topics
Call for Papers
Policy paradigm in India Second green revolution ICT for well-informed decision-making in agriculture Who owns the productive lands and natural resources? Role of ICTs - land records, mapping, and conflict resolution, etc. Agri-Marketing Agriculture marketing and ICT Accessing global markets through ICT Agriculture Extension Transfer of technology- concept of knowledge systems (Local and Global) Development of ICT sector for agriculture and role of Public Private Partnership (PPP) Agriculture Production Food security through ICT Precision farming- optimum use of available resources Agri-Finance Agri-finance management with ICT Innvoative Financial Products: Agriculture credit and insurance solutions with ICT Agri- Education and Research Making ICTs usable & useful in context of Indian Agriculture Higher Education in agriculture - are they ICT ready?
We invite you to participate actively in this event and send us relevant papers for presentation. Submit your abstracts online at www.eIndia.net.in/eAgriculture/abstractonline Abstract submission : 25 May 2007 Abstract Acceptance : 6 June 2007 Full Paper Submission : 30 June 2007 Contact Details: Anaam Sharma anaam@csdms.in or call at +91 9910597744 Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) G-4, Sector - 39, Noida, Uttar Pradesh - 201301 Phones: +91-120-2502180-85 Fax: 91-120-2500060
www.eINDIA.net.in/eAgriculture