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As a youthful country with a median age of 29 years,
India is emerging as a significant global innovation and startup hub. Providing
impetus to startups based on agricultural engineering technology can address
many issues such as employment generation, value addition, increase income to
farmers, and promoting vibrant agrarian value chains. Agricultural Engineering
interventions are necessary for India’s next green revolution. Many
agricultural technology startups in India focusing on technologies such as
protected cultivation, post- harvest management, value addition, cold chain
management, data analytics, machine learning, and satellite imaging are already
enabling farmers to maximize their output. To cope up with challenges
site-specific adaptive practices and techniques need to be adapted to local
conditions. There is need to find solutions to challenges posed by changing
climate and variability in the agricultural production system which are crucial to
meet sustainable development goals.
Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers have been
continuously making efforts to make significant presence at International
level. International community have
joined hands with Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers and a strong
partnership with global agricultural engineering fraternity has been initiated.
ISAE has been actively engaged in this endeavour. Global food security meet was
organised in 2015 in South Africa followed by Global water security meet in India
in 2018. The recent international meet on precision agriculture i.e '8th
Asian-Australasian Conference on Precision Agriculture” hosted by Indian
society of Agricultural Engineers
jointly with PAU Ludhiana, with a support of ICAR, was a great success.
To give boost to international cooperation, on behalf of
ISAE, I visited USA, Nigeria, South Korea and Nepal on the invitation of
respective professional societies. The efforts of ISAE for developing strong
international network among agricultural engineering professionals were
recognized and appreciated by all these professional societies. MOUs were
signed with these professional societies for working jointly for mutual benifit
and overall growth of the profession. In Pune convention delegation-level participation
was there from these respective international professional societies for
further strengthening cooperation and developing professional network.
To complement each other in different skills and
core capabilities, there is need of strong collaboration between agricultural
engineering researchers and industry. From the last couple of years ISAE has been making concrete efforts in
this direction. The industry session was a special attraction of Kashi
convention (BHU) followed by Pune Convention (Rahuri). During both the
conventions, senior executives of major tractor companies, agro-industries and
agro-based start-ups of the country participated in signifcnat Industry
representatives presented their future plan to enhance engineering
interventions in agriculture for making agriculture a respectable, profitable
and enjoyable enterprise.
In order to use lockdown as an
opportunity for capacity building of young engineers and to have dialogue on
issues of national agriculture for better input, ISAE started webinar series.
The Webinar
series 1.0 on ‘Automation in Agriculture’ was organized from 20-29th
April, 2020. More than 700 + Participants registered, over 2500 Facebook live
views and 800 + panelists and participants attending this event through
zoom. The speakers were from world prestigious institutes like
Washington State university, Mississippi State University, Asian
Institute of Technology (AIT Bangkok), IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, Indian
Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), ISRO, BISA-Ludhiana, Punjab
Agricultural University, Central Institute of Agril Engineering (CIAE-Bhopal)
and Few Progressive Indian Farmers. Also, the webinars covered skills
development topics for Students and Professionals like Electronics,
Embedded controllers, Sensors, Signal conditioning, Controls, Connectivity,
Networking, Programming, Remote data management with emphasis on agricultural
use cases.
In
continuation, ISAE started Webinar 2.0 series in May 2020 with the objective of
networking the Industry and Management professionals with the educational and
research Institutes for enabling skill development and collaboration. Technical
Application Group (TAG) came into existence to deliberate and provide technical
input on various issues related to agriculture faced by farmers, researchers,
industry and policy makers. The TAG consists of members from Industry, research
and management with special experience and expertise in the concerned area. The TAG
team works on providing necessary guidance starting from sensor selection, IOT,
control to data warehousing, technology solutions for biogas plant and greenhouse cultivation, and subsidy issues. ISAE exhorts members particularly young
ones to take full advantage of this innovative initiative of ISAE to enhance
their human resources, skill and overall personality.
Revamping
of ISAE website has been a major issue taken by ISAE on priority. With the hard
efforts of the local executive committee, the new ISAE website is launched with
features line online publication system, online membership system, personal
dashboard for members, industry information interface and many other advance
features. The upgraded new website will meet the expectations of members both from
India and abroad, and will be helpful immensely in growth and development of ISAE.
Indra Mani
President ISAE
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