Rural Voice Agriculture Conclave and NEDAC Awards 2021 today
On the occasion of Farmers’ Day and its own first anniversary, Rural Voice is organizing “Rural Voice Agriculture Conclave and NEDAC Awards 2021” at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi today. Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, will be the chief guest.
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On the occasion of Farmers’ Day and its own first anniversary, Rural Voice is organizing “Rural Voice Agriculture Conclave and NEDAC Awards 2021” at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi today. Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, will be the chief guest.
Union ministers, bureaucrats, policymakers, experts, politicians and farmer representatives are participating in the conclave.
The programme will have discussions on topics related to agriculture, cooperatives, technology and policymaking. Besides, NEDAC Rural Voice awards will be presented to organizations and individuals who have done excellent work in agriculture and rural sector.
The programme starts at 10 am today. It will be streamed live on our websites ruralvoice.in, eng.ruralvoice.in, our YouTube channel ruralvoicein, Twitter handle ruralvoicein, Facebook page RuralVoicein, Linked page ruralvoicein and Instagram handle ruralvoicein. You may watch the programme on these channels in case you are not able to participate directly.
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, Senior Vice-President, Sahakar Bharti.
The event has Mother Dairy as its main sponsor and NEDAC as the award partner.
