DBT-UKRI Workshop on Sustainable Agriculture

The two days workshop will be held on March 26-27, 2025 at BRIC-NABI to discuss the emerging areas in sustainable agriculture for future collaboration between India and the UK.

Key points of the discussions:

• connecting agriculture, food and nutrition for the benefit of human health
• Precision farming, digitalization
• identifying challeges and strength
• sustainable farming practices for net-zero emissions
• adopting good practices for climate change etc.

Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Scientist, NIPGR and co-founder semanticClimate will be participating in the workshop to give insight about "AI in Agriculture and plant sciences".

List of Participants

Indian Experts

• Dr. Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Principal Scientist, Division of Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)
• Dr. Ashwani Pareek, Executive Director, BRIC-National Agri-Food and Biomanufacturing Institute (BRIC-NABI)
• Dr. Joy K Roy, Scientist-F, BRIC-NABI
• Dr. Praveen Chhuneja, Principal Molecular Geneticist, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU)
• Dr. Debasis Chattopadhyay, Director, NIPGR, New Delhi
• Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Scientist-VI (NIPGR)
• Dr. Harinder Singh Oberoi (Director NIFTM)
• Dr. Ramesh Sonti, Director, ICGEB, New Delhi
• Dr. Srikant Srinivasan, Plaksha University, Mohali
• Dr. Manish Dhawan (BIRAC)

UK Experts

• Professor Carol Wagstaff, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading
• Dr. Lydia Smith, Director of NIAB Innovation Farm and Innovation Hub, National Institute of Agricultural Botany
• Dr. Jenna Ross OBE, Senior International Business Development Manager, UK Agri-Tech Centre
• Dr. Sean Mayes, Global Research Program Director - Accelerated Crop Improvement
• Alec Anderson, Co-founder KoolMill
• Dr. Christopher Till, Knowledge Transfer Manager in the Agrifood team

Date

March 26-27, 2025

Location

BRIC-National Agri-Food & Biomanufacturing Institute (NABI)

Sector-81, Knowledge City,

Mohali-140306, Punjab