Thursday, January 27, 2011

PAU GEARS UP FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS DURING FEBRUARY

LUDHIANA, JANUARY 27: The preparations are afoot in Punjab Agricultural University(PAU) for the international conference and the workshops on 'Climate Change\', 'Kharif Crops,' \'Home Science\', \'Bee-Keeping mela\' and \'Precision Agriculture\', slated for February. A three-day international conference on 'Preparing Agriculture for Climate Change' will be held from February 6–8 under the auspices of Crop Improvement Society of India (CISI). The conference, involving the participation of eminent agricultural and climatology scientists -- notably, Dr Toby Hodgkin (Italy), Dr Lawrence Gusta (Canada), Dr Martin Barbetti and Dr Robert Norton (Australia), Dr PS Bindraban (the Netherlands), Dr Nicholas Molyneux (Thailand), Dr Daniel Hillel, Dr Jiwan .S. Palta and Dr Bikram Singh Gill (USA) and many more from different parts of the country--centers on following themes: (a) agriculture: abettor and sufferer, (b) mitigation strategies – policy and management interventions, (c) adaptation strategies: genetic interventions, and (d) climate change and biodiversity: extinction and new emergence. An exhibition of portraits 'Faith' celebrating Punjabi students in Australia, by eminent artist Daniel Connell, will be organized from February 3-9 at MS Randhawa Art Gallery in conjunction with the International Conference. The art exhibition will be inaugurated by PAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Manjit Singh Kang on February 3 at 4.00 pm.

A Research & Extension Specialists Workshop for Kharif Crops will be held on February 14-15 in the university premises. The workshop will be inaugurated by Dr Kang and chaired by the Director of Agriculture, Punjab. The Agricultural Officers and field functionaries of the Department of Agriculture, Punjab and extension specialists of PAU working at Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs), Farm Advisory Service Scheme ( FASS) and outstations will participate. This forum will help PAU gather feedback and to finalize Package of Practices for Kharif crops in light of latest recommendations. Aiming to improve the quality of life of rural families, in general, and the farm women of economically weaker sections, in particular, PAU in collaboration with Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (ICAR), Bhubaneswar, is organizing XIX Biennial Workshop of All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Home Science, on February 16-17 at College of Home Science.

The PAU Department of Entomology, in collaboration with the Directorate of Extension Education, is organizing a Honey Festival-cum-Experience Exchange Workshop (HFEEW) on \'Prospects and Promotion of Beekeeping for Augmenting Hive & Crop Productivity' from February 22-24, under the aegis of National Horticulture Mission (NHM). About 2,000 beekeepers and apicultural scientists from all over India will be participating. The eminent scientists will deliberate on the prospects of beekeeping entrepreneurship, its diversification, research needs, the scientific interventions, the advances in beekeeping, etc. In addition, an apicultural exhibition will be put up by various government organizations, NGOs, beekeeping societies and associations to showcase the latest technologies, innovations and status of bee-keeping in the country. An Indo-US Workshop on 'Precision agricultural techniques and technologies' is being organized from February 28- March 3 at PAU. The USA has been involved in Precision Agriculture for more than two decades, but is still in its infancy in countries like India. The workshop is being organized by PAU in association with Colorado State University (CSU) under the auspices of Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). The necessary arrangements are being made for the organization of these programmes.
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