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Comprehensive planning to increase agricultural productivity and crop yield is significant to ensure sustainable future for agriculture. During any planning effort, up to date information and knowledge is the key; and, the latest buzzword in the agriculture sector is ‘Geospatial Information’. Geospatial Information and technology, with its potential to administer the comprehensive life cycle of agriculture; is a rapidly finding recognition in the world. Today in order to accomplish its accountability in addressing to feed the world, sustainable growth and ensuring food safety Agriculture is facing a daunting task to accomplish its goals; and in this process, it is the need of the hour to identify, understand and acclimatize the importance of Geospatial (‘G’) factors in Agriculture procedures. The use of technology to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of farming practices has increased tremendously and evolved as ‘Geospatial Practices’ in agriculture. Use of Geospatial technologies in farming relies on a huge gamut of geospatial tools such as remote sensing, satellite or aerial imagery, g-powered mobile apps, lasers, sensors, RFID, LiDAR, GPS, GNSS and UAV’s. This session would focus on connecting potential of ‘G’ in the following two broad categories of Agricultural process:
Tracing ‘G’ in pre-harvesting agricultural process
- Site suitability, Soil & Moisture assessment, Soil Health Management, Fertility mapping and Land levelling.
- Weather assessment, Disaster Impact Assessment, Climate Change & Crop Forecasting
- Precision Farming in Ploughing & Seeding
- Irrigation, Waterbed assessment & management.
- Fertilizers
- Distribution & Storage
- Agro-Informatics and Market Intelligence
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Moderator: Mark Noort Editor - Agriculture, Geospatial World Magazine |
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Dr. Pramod K. Joshi
Director - South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute |
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Dr. Brijendra Pateriya
Director, Punjab Remote Sensing Centre |
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Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar
Head - Geoinformatics, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Jordan Abstract |
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Amit Bhardwaj
Head Sugar Research, Indian Sugar Mills Association |
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Dr. G.P. Obi Reddy
Sr. Scientist & Incharge - GIS Section, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning |
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Chris Gibson
Vice President, Trimble, USA |
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Joseph Plappallil J.
Chairman cum Managing Director, Agriculture Insurance Company of India, Ministry of Finance |
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Dr. J.P. Mishra
Adviser - Agriculture, Planning Commission |
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Dr. Animesh Shrivastava
Lead Agriculture Economist, South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank |
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Dr. B. Venkateswarlu
Director, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture |
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Dr. K. C. Bansal
Director, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
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Dr. Narendra Singh Rathore
Vice Chancellor, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University |
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Dr. T. S. Sharma
Project Director, State Remote Sensing Application Centre, Rajasthan |
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Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma
Chief Soil Survey Officer, Soil and Land Use Survey of India |
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M.L. Nagpal
General Manager, Movement, Food Corporation of India, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
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Dr. P.G. Diwakar
Deputy Director, Remote Sensing Application, National Remote Sensing Centre |
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Dr. R.S. Hooda
Chief Scientist, HARSAC, Haryana Space Applications Centre |
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Girish Jain
Business Head - Machine Control division Elcome Technologies Abstract |
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Prasenjit Gupta
Practice Head GNSS Solutions, Stesalit |
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Dr Rowan Barling
Group Manager Government and Environmental Agencies Sinclair Knight Merz Australia |