The 78th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics is going to be held November 1-3 under the auspices of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, International Food Policy Research Institute, Delhi, and Tata-Cornell Institute, Ithaca, USA.
Three broad subjects will be discussed including: (a) Seven year plan for agriculture- output and biowaste management (b) Post-harvesting requirements for reducing the gap between what consumers pay and farmers receive and (c) Social and community organisations for agricultural development and coping with limited non-renewable resources.
Eminent agricultural economists, policy planners, government officials and civil society groups across India and abroad are expected to participate in the conference.
IFPRI Participants:
Inaugural Session (November 1, 2018 — 10:30am-11:30am)
- Dr. PK Joshi, Director of South Asia
Keynote Papers Presentations (November 1, 2018 — 11:45am-1:15pm)
- Dr. Devesh Roy, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Student Presentations (November 1, 2018 — 2:15pm-4:30pm)
- Avinash Kishore, Research Fellow, IFPRI
Technical Session 2: Post-harvesting requirements for reducing the gap between what consumers pay and farmers receive (November 2, 2018 – 9:30-11:00am)
- Anjani Kumar, Research Fellow, IFPRI
Special Session 1: Doubling Farmers’ Income: Opportunities and Challenges (November 2, 2018 – 11:30am-1:00pm)
- Anjani Kumar, Research Fellow, IFPRI
Special Lecture 2: Special Lecture in Memory of Professor M.L. Dantwala (November 2, 2018 – 5:00pm-6:30pm)
- Dr. Suresh Chandra Babu, Senior Research Fellow & Head of Capacity Strengthening
Special Session 2: Innovations in Agriculture and Agricultural Economics Research (November 3, 2018 — 09:00am-10:30am)
- Dr. Suresh Chandra Babu, Senior Research Fellow & Head of Capacity Strengthening