IMPACT LECTURE SERIES (Session-I)
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- Institution's Innovation Council Cell
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- IMPACT LECTURE SERIES (Session-I)
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- Online Mode
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- 2022-07-30
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The Session 1 of the Impact Lecture Series was organized by the IIC, Suren Das College, Hajo, Assam on 30th July, 2022. Dr. Pranjal Phukan was invited as the resource person for the first session and Mr. Subhas Bhattacharjee was invited as the resource person for the second session.
Topic 1: Innovations and Inventions in Agriculture-Applicability in Rural Areas
Topic 2: Emerging Opportunities in Agro-based and Food Processing Industries.
The lectures were highly informative and both students as well as faculties actively participated in the online lecture series. The speaker, Dr. Pranjal Phukan, an eminent and experienced industry professional delivered quite an informative lecture on different innovations and Inventions that have been developed in the field of Agriculture for development in the rural areas. His topic for the session was “Innovations and Inventions in Agriculture-Applicability in Rural Areas”. He talked about the use of drones, sensors, big data etc. He also talked about innovative farming such as digital soil mapping and also discussed about start-up application areas suitable for support.
In the following half, Mr. Subhas Bhattacharjee delivered a lecture on “Emerging Opportunities in Agro-based and Food Processing Industries. The resource person delivered a fruitful lecture on the challenges of Agri- and food processing sector in North-East India. He also talked about the opportunities in various agricultural and food processing industry and showed the path from farm to market. He also discussed about few local products available only in the North-Eastern part of India which has been capable of gaining attention in the global market. Overall he passed on valuable information to the students and faculties through his deliberation.
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