On the occasion of its first anniversary, Rural Voice is organizing “Rural Voice Agriculture Conclave and NEDAC Awards 2021” at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on December 23. Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, will be the chief guest.
Rural Voice is a digital media platform dedicated to agriculture and rural India. The Network for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives in Asia and the Pacific (NEDAC) is a unique regional forum linking 21 apex cooperative organizations in 12 countries.
Union ministers, bureaucrats, policymakers, experts, politicians and farmer representatives will share their views on this forum. A booklet compiling select articles from the Rural Voice website ruralvoice.in will also be released on this occasion. Besides, NEDAC Rural Voice awards will be presented to organizations and individuals who have done excellent work in agriculture and rural sector.
There will be three discussion sessions at the conclave. The topic for the first session is “Agricultural and Rural Prosperity Through Cooperatives and Farmers’ Collectives”. The participants are Prof. Ramesh Chand, Member (Agriculture), Niti Aayog; Sundeep K Nayak, DG, NPC; Devendra Kumar Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Cooperation; Dr US Awasthi, MD, IFFCO; Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, former Nabard chairman; and Jayen Mehta, Head, Planning and Marketing, Amul.
The participants in the second session on “Agriculture and Technology” are Dr RS Paroda, Chairman, TAAS and former DG, ICAR; Dr Trilochan Mohapatra, DG, ICAR; Rajvir Singh Rathi from Bayer CropScience; and Subhdeep Sanyal, Partner, Omnivore VC.
The concluding session will be held on “Enabling Policy Environment for Agriculture and Rural Sector”. The participants will be Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Union Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries; Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj; KC Tyagi, JD(U) General Secretary; Badri Narayan Choudhary, President, Bhartiya Kisan Sangh; Roshan Lal Tamak from DCM Shriram Ltd; and DN Thakur, President, Sahakar Bharti.
The event has Mother Dairy as its main sponsor and NEDAC as the award partner.