Group of Technopark Companies is organising a Conference titled ‘ Re-Engineering the Kerala Agriculture Sector: Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture’ on 22nd of January 2010 at Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The conference is being organised by GTech in partnership with NABARD, Kerala State IT Mission, Technopark and Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management in Kerala.
The conference would examine several ongoing projects that aim to provide IT based Services to specific sectors like Agriculture Marketing, Agriculture production and Extension Services. The Conference would bring to the fore the core issues of the Agriculture Sector and how ICT’s could be employed in addressing these challenges. The conference would bring together experts and thought leaders from the Kerala IT Industry, Senior Government Officials, Representatives from International and National Development Organisations, NGO’s, Representatives from the Kerala agricultural community and Media.
The invited speakers for the Conference include Dr. Ajay Kumar IAS , Principal Secretary IT , Government of Kerala, Prof. Rajeev Srinivasan, IIM Bangalore, Mr. R Madhavan, Agriculture Management Consultancy, Dr. V Balaji, ICRISAT, Dr. Gopi Ghosh, Food and Agriculture Organisation and Mr. Guenter Dresruesse, German Technical Cooperation
The Conference would have three sessions dedicated to the use of ICT’s in Agriculture Marketing, Production and Extensions Services.
