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Dr. Armaan U. Muzaddadi, Principal Scientist, ICAR-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology in Ludhiana, Punjab, talks about post-harvest handling, preservation, and value addition of agricultural perishables. We are looking after the postharvest technologies and different...

Dr. Saurabh Pandey, Assistant Professor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, discusses the need and scope of agriculture education in India. When we got independence, the agriculture system was underdeveloped, and we were depending on the other countries meeting our food grain demands...

Mr. Rohan Yogesh Raut, Director, Generous Technologies Pvt Ltd, Nagpur, Maharashtra, explains: How to optimize agriculture, the integrated farming approach. Integrated farming system is a sustainable agricultural practice that...

Mr. Sivakumaran R, Proprietor, Saaral Agro Products, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, talks about multi cropping of millets and vegetables. After taking a survey for 6 months, analysing the details, I wanted to create a standardised mechanism which is controllable and to have a system from production to...

Mr. S. Vijay Kumar, AGM, Technical Services, Premier Irrigation Adritec Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, Karnataka, explains Micro irrigation technologies for areca nut cultivation. Water management is an important part of Arecanut cultivation. Farmers often neglect installation and maintenance of...

Mr. Prathamesh Samant, Founder, Maachli Farm stay, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, explains how agro tourism is a profitable business. Konkan region is a beautiful place with nice farms, rivers, grasslands, and various types of ecosystems. There is lot of potential for Agri tourism in this area. It...

Dr. Pravallika Sree Rayanoothala, Assistant Professor (Plant Pathology), CV Raman Global University, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, talks about exploring fungi’s role in creating nanoparticles for practical uses in agriculture. Nano pesticides wherever and whenever are used have many benefits. They...

Mr. Sivarami Reddy, Director, Mill Master Machinery Pvt ltd, Bengaluru, Karnataka, explains the different stages in paddy to rice processing system. The rice processing system includes various steps like cleaning, drying, storage, and milling. When we do the cleaning before processing, we have...

Mr. Shrirang Chandekar, Director, LeanWay Energy Pvt Ltd, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad Area explains about The BuzzZap Solar Insect Trap: A highly effective solution for insect control in agriculture. BuzzZap is basically a solar insect trap. Our company is working on developing various products in...

Mr. Muralee Manohar, Managing Director, Farm Tech Consultancy, Kozhikode, Kerala, discusses about developments in the field of hydroponic greenhouse farming. Hydroponics is a topic that is gaining momentum nowadays especially after the pandemic attack. We have learnt to strive hard for...

Mr. Harkirat Ahluwalia, Founder, Citrus County Farms Stays, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, talks on rural entrepreneurship and farm tourism. I am a third generation citrus grower with different varieties of citrus in my farm, such as tangerines, grape fruit, lemon, and others. I started the farm stay in...

Dr. M. Ramanan, Director, Deen Dayal Institute of Rural Development, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, discusses the new financial avenues for Agri business. India has come a long way to become the 3rd largest economy in the world. But the sad part of it is though an agrarian country, we still do not have...

Mr. Sanjay Varma, Regional Head, Andreas STIHL India, Bangalore, Karnataka, talks about the current agro-machinery usage and benefits. We are developing products for various sectors such as agriculture, forestry, horticulture, landscaping, and cleaning. We are world number one in producing...

Mr. Saket Kashyap, Director of Kash Fisheries, Sangrampur Motihari, Bihar, discusses the problems faced during fish breeding. In 2016, we started the hatchery business with the help of state government who had announced a scheme to invite people to start hatchery business. We started with two...

Mr. Piyush Kumar, pursuing B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, explains the production technology of mango. The botanical name of mango is Mangifera indica and belongs to family Anacardiaceae. it is a drupe kind of fruit, falling after getting ripe...

Mr. N. Sreenivasarao (NS), Business Head, Research Paddy and Jute, Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana, talks about wheat seed value addition, bottlenecks, and reasons for low wheat production. Wheat and rice are the most important food crops, and India is likely to be the food basket of...

Mr. Mradul Choubey, Manager, Ernst and Young, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, talks about the importance of aggregation, grading, marketing and harvesting practices in a value chain. Mr. Mradul Choubey, Manager at Ernst and Young in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, emphasizes the significance of aggregation...

Dr. Jagadeesh B. Henjarappa, Managing Director, Achyutha Innovations, Tumkur, Karnataka, talks about photosynthetic stimulator technology and implication in enhancing yield and quality in pomegranate crop. We have developed a technology called Photosynthetic Stimulator Technology to increase...

Mr. Hem Prakash Verma, Ph. D Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Extension, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, explains in detail about the Farmer Producer Organisation and its status, scope, and the challenges involved. The status, scope, and challenges faced...

Mr. V. Narasimharaju, Managing Director, Coldspace Agrotech India Pvt Ltd, Malkajgiri district, Telangana, talks about post-harvest technologies in banana. What is organised technology market? I will take banana as an example. Earlier people used to cut banana in whole bunches and transport...