Session 01: Agriculture Engineering

Agriculture Conference focus on the topic Agriculture Engineering. Agricultural Engineering is developed to make advances in sustainable agriculture which is totally eco-friendly. By the middle of the 20th century, Agricultural Engineering evolved into four types of activity like Power and machinery, irrigation and drainage, farm structures and environment, processing and electrification. Most Agricultural Engineering focused on biological engineering, efficient use of irrigation water, renewable energy and environmental issues. Agricultural Engineering is facing three great challenges: Food safety and Food security, protecting the species and natural resources and reduced employment status. Agricultural Engineering is focused on engineering skills and technologies that take a strong approach to current problems. Food security and crop production will be much stronger if Agricultural Engineering can be developed appropriately.  

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Session 02: Agriculture & Food Security

Agriculture Conference focuses on the topic food security and welcomes to all person who related to food security. A policy orientation for food security and safety include state-wise, previous, current and future policy issues, and cope-wise sustainability of agriculture. The particular part of food distribution in our society can be examined through the research of the changes in the food supply chain. Globalization, in particular, has significant effects on the food supply chain by validating scale effect in the food distribution industry. Provision of an adequate amount of essential nutrients to human beings has ever been the challenge in the province of food security. Hence, malnutrition is heavily interlinked to food security consideration, yet difficult to be eliminated. Food security and Policy, therefore, become magnetic in the province of research.

Session 03: Agriculture: Current Trends and Future

In the interim, agriculture’s share of global GDP has shrunk to just 3 percent, one-third its contribution just decades ago. Roughly 800 million people worldwide suffer from hunger. And under a business-as-usual scenario, 8 percent of the world’s population (or 650 million) will still be undernourished by 2030.The reality is that little innovation has taken place within the business of late—in any case, nothing to point that food inadequacy associated hunger won't be an issue in the coming decades.

Session 04: Agriculture in Changing Environment

Agriculture each contributes to global climate change and is full of global climate change. The EU has to scale back its greenhouse-gas emissions from Agriculture and adapt its food-production system to address global climate change.

Session 05: Post-Harvest Technology

Threshing

Threshing is that the method of beating paddy plants so as to separate the seeds or grains from the straw. To maintain the high quality of the harvested grains, it should be threshed immediately after harvesting. Avoid field drying and stacking for several days as it affects grain quality due to over drying. Stacked grains of high wet content leads to discoloration or yellowing.

Manual Threshing

The manual methods of threshing are treading by feet, flail method, and beating stalks against tubs, boards or racks. Threshing can be done by trampling using bullocks, rubbing with bare human feet (in hills) or lifting the bundles and striking them on the raised wooden platform. Pedal threshers are also used. Freshly threshed rice should be dried well within the sun.

Session 06: Horticulture Therapy

Horticultural medical aid techniques square measure utilized to help participants to find out new skills or regain those who square measure lost. Horticultural therapy is a time-proven practice. The therapeutic advantages of garden environments are documented since history. In the 19th century, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the declaration of Independence and recognized as the "Father of American Psychiatry," was first to document the positive effect working in the garden had on individuals with mental illness.

Session 07: Pesticides and Fertilizers

Fertilizers are compounds that are another to plants to push growth. There are 2 varieties of fertilizers organic and inorganic .Organic fertilizers are carbon primarily based and are composed of organic matter like leaves, junk and elements of plants. Inorganic fertilizers contain simple inorganic chemicals. Some of the common nutrients gift in fertilizers is gas, phosphorus and metal (NKP). They also contain secondary plant nutrients such as calcium, sulphur and magnesium. Some special fertilizers contain trace components or micronutrients for the nutrition of plants like element, chlorine, manganese, iron, zinc, copper and molybdenum. It is very important that farmers understand the precise combination of fertilizers to be used for an explicit crop to avoid injury through excessive or improper use.

Session 08: Plant Science

Agriculture Conference focuses on the topic plant science and invited to all student scientist and professor who related to plant science. Plant Science will accelerate the application of gene technology to agriculture. The scope of the plant science ranges from developing molecular techniques for genetic engineering to ecological research in the field of plant science. Ultimately the natural products want to contribute to a fundamental knowledge of basic biological processes related to development and health and the sustainable production of more healthy foods, flowers, and high-value biobased products. By accelerating the application of technology, plant genomics significantly increases the value of seeds and agricultural products. This increase adds much wealth to the customers, company owners, employees, and citizens of the nations in which genetic supply companies operate, and to both producing and importing nations whose food costs consequently are decreased.

Session 09: Agricultural Production Systems & Agribusiness

Agriculture Conference focuses on the topic agribusiness. Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production. It includes agrichemicals, breeding, crop production distribution, farm machinery, processing, and seed supply, as well as marketing and retail sales. All agents of the food and fiber value chain and those institutions that influence it are part of the agribusiness system.

Within the Agriculture industry, "agribusiness" is used simply as a portmanteau of agriculture and business, referring to the range of activities and disciplines encompassed by modern food production. There are academic degrees in and departments of agribusiness, agribusiness trade associations, agribusiness publications, and so forth, worldwide.

Agricultural productivity is measured as the ratio of agricultural outputs to agricultural inputs. While individual products are usually measured by weight, their varying densities make measuring overall agricultural output difficult. Therefore, the output is usually measured as the market value of final output, which excludes intermediate products such as corn feed used in the meat industry. This output value may be compared to many different types of inputs such as labour and land (yield). These are called partial measures of productivity.

Agricultural Economics covers a wide array of issues from development, trade, macroeconomics policy implications, agribusiness, production and consumption all the way to environmental and resource issues.

Session 10: Agriculture and Environment

Agriculture conference focusses on the environmental impact of agriculture varies based on the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Ultimately, the environmental impact depends on the production practices of the system used by farmers. The connection between emissions into the environment and the farming system is indirect, as it also depends on other climate variables such as rainfall and temperature.

The environmental impact of agriculture involves a variety of factors from the soil to water, the air, animal and soil diversity, people, plants, and the food itself. Some of the environmental issues that are related to agriculture are climate change, deforestation, genetic engineering, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation, and waste. Agriculture conference provides an opportunity to researchers and scientist to explore the advanced and latest research developments in the field of Agriculture and Environment.

Session 11: Food Science

Agriculture Conference focusses on the subject Food Science. The study of the physical, chemical and biological make up of food and food ingredients encompasses a stream called food science. The applied form of this makes various branches like its selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution, and use of safe food. In the due course of evolution the obligation of professionals working in the field of food science and technology is immense contributing in the making of healthier human beings and ensuring continual and abundant supply of food ingredients.

Session 12: Crop protection & Entomology

Crop protection is the study and practice of managing pests, plant diseases, weeds and other harmful organisms that damage agricultural crops and forestry and thus affect the economic value and agri-market.

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was more vague, and historically the definition of entomology included the study of terrestrial animals in other arthropod groups or other phyla, such as arachnids, myriapods, earthworms, land snails, and slugs.

Introduction

Without modern agricultural techniques, current population levels could not be sustained and projected near-term population growth would create stresses that would destabilize the current global social and political order.  Relatively recent innovations in seeds, chemicals and fertilizers have enabled agricultural producers to meet the ever-growing demands of a hungry world population. Even with the rapid increases in agricultural productivity, however, challenges for the agriculture industry to supply the growing global economy with sufficient supplies of agricultural staples are greater now than ever before. A new green revolution similar to the one that took place during the latter part of the 20th century is taking place all over the world to meet the expected demand by the growing world population and its increased standard of living.

Scope and Importance

Economic growth and industrialization of a nation are inextricably linked to the continuous availability, access, diversity and modernization of its agriculture sector. Agriculture, in fact, plays a vital function in whole goals and endeavors to attain fiscal development. A lot of the present day’s developed economies initially struggled to make their agricultural sector stronger. The states at a priority basis supply monetary help to their farmers, researchers and scientists with a plan to boost their agricultural inventions still further. Agricultural science is among one of the best career options of a study and because of the lack of information and proper guidance, peoples usually under-estimate this field. Each and the every requirements and need of creature including food, clothing and shelter are straightforwardly rewarded by agriculture. A continuous research work is involving in this field to provide the maximum necessities to the ever-increasing population of the world. Essentially, the entire agricultural land expansion might be taken place in developing countries of the world. Consequently, the importance of agriculture to society impinges on our quality of life, food, nutrition, clothing and locality where peoples are living.

List of Global Universities

• University of Cambridge, UK
• University of Oxford, UK
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• California Institute of Technology, USA
• Harvard University, USA
• Princeton University, USA
• Yale University, USA
• Imperial College London, UK
• University of Chicago, USA 
• ETH Zurich, Switzerland

List of Research Centres

•  The Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Japan
•  National Agriculture Research Center (NARC), Pakistan
•  National Research Institute of Aquaculture (NRIAQ), Japan
•  Chugoku National Agricultural Experiment Station (CNAES), Japan
• Japan Sea National Fisheries Research Institute (JSNFRI), Japan
•  National Research Institute of Agricultural Economics (NRIAEC), India
•  Bioversity International Maccarese, Roma, Italy
•  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA
•  International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), USA
•  International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico

Universities and Research institutes in Asia:

• University of Tokyo, Japan
• National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Peking University, China
• Tsinghua University, China
• Seoul National University, South Korea
• University of Hong Kong, Taiwan
• National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
• Osaka University, Japan
• Fudan University, China
• Tohoku University, Japan
• University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Nanjing University, China
• Nagoya University, Japan
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Hokkaido University, Japan
• Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
• Zhejiang University, China
• Indian Institute of Science, India
• Kyushu University, Japan
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Yonsei University, South Korea
• University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
• Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia

Funding

SFAC is an exclusive Society focused on increasing incomes of small and marginal farmers through aggregation and development of agribusiness .SFAC has pioneered the formation and growth of Farmer Producer Organizations/Farmer Producer Companies, which is now being implemented across the length and breadth of the country. SFAC is progressing towards establishing an eco-system for FPOs/FPCs to make them sustainable and viable in the long run. SFAC offers Schemes like Equity Grant and Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme to FPCs to improve availability of working capital and development of business activities .SFAC promotes development of small agribusiness through its VCA Scheme for value added processing and marketing linkages.

Conclusion

The agricultural sector is of important importance for the region. It is undergoing a method of transition to a economy, with substantial changes within the social, legal, structural, productive and provide set-ups, as is that the case with all other sectors of the economy .These changes are in the course of a decline in agricultural production for many countries, and have affected conjointly the national seed offer sectors of the region. The region has had to face issues of food insecurity and a few countries have required food aid for IDPs and refugees.