Tropentag-India
“Tropentag” is an annual interdisciplinary conference on tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development. The event has been organized annually since 1999, which serves as a platform for researchers, academics, professionals, and students from around the world to present their findings, share experiences, and collaborate. With the aim of addressing global challenges, this event offers a unique opportunity to foster cross-disciplinary discussions and promote sustainable solutions. The event is organized by The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany.
Tropentag-India: SusPoT – Center for Sustainability in association with Tropentag is organizing an online hybrid program: “Technologies and Farm to Store Models to Scale Up Climate Smart Regenerative Farming in India”.
The event is co-organized by School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University (LPU) Punjab; Dr. Ramanaidu Ekalavya Grameena Vikas KVK and, Manavatha Foundation from Telangana
Relevance of the event and what does it contain?
The United Nations has introduced sustainable/ regenerative climate smart agriculture as a long term solution for food security in the world. The knowledge of the same has been disseminated in India at all levels since a decade. However, still 98% of the farmers are following chemical intensive farming and unable to transform themselves to practice regenerative agriculture.
In this conference/workshop we will highlight the gaps in the existing system and bring forth successful models and technologies that would enable stakeholders of all levels to help scale up regenerative and climate smart agriculture in India. The program aims to bring out the best technical/methodological interventions that would make regenerative farming easy for the farmers and also marketing models that will boost farmers profits. The event would also bring out innovative approaches to build and retain a consumer base. The event is an online virtual conference/workshop of 3 hours on 20th September 2023.
Who can attend: Students, Professionals, Consultants, NGOs, Researchers, and Policy analysts working in the agriculture extension, planning, regenerative farming, climate action and food security domains.
Benefits to the graduates, consultancies, NGOs and enterprises for attending the event
- The solutions provided by the subject experts will help organizations in overcoming the challenges they are facing in scaling up of their activities and impact.
- Student and researchers will get exposure and awareness about current research focus areas at the international level.
- Students will be able to plan for higher studies and become experts in the subject area.
- Graduates will get awareness about scope and job opportunities in the regenerative agriculture sector and they will start preparing towards the opportunities.
- New ideas can come out from the challenges discussed by the experts and young graduates can develop new technologies and processes to overcome them.
- Researchers can propose to collaborate with international researchers/institutes for carrying out projects in India.
1) First register at Tropentag Platform: click here
2) Please fill the form to complete the process of participation: click here
Dear Students, Researchers and Practitioners,
We are delighted to announce the upcoming online conference, scheduled to be held on 20th September 2023 at the Tropentag Europe Platform. The conference aims to bring together professionals, researchers, and stakeholders from the sustainable farming community to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and discuss advancements and achievements in sustainable agriculture. We are inviting all the professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts of sustainable farming to submit an abstract for presentation at this event.
This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your research findings, innovative practices, and experiences related to sustainable farming. We welcome abstracts on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to:
- Technologies to reduce manpower in organic farming for farm lands
- Methods to reduce weeds in organic farming for farm lands
- Models to scale consumer purchase of organic products
- Processes/Models that increase profit for farmers and provide the best price to consumers.
- Innovative: time and cost-effective certification processes
- Technologies to guarantee or prove that the products for sale is 100% Organic
- Innovative approaches to change consumer behaviour towards buying organic products
- Organic farming suitable cultivars and tools in different crops
- Success stories of organic farming and marketing with reduced manpower, improved yields and profit
- Successful business models in marketing of organic produce and benefiting farmers (marketing within India and also outside).
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 7th September
Notification of Acceptance: 10th September
Conference Dates: 20th September
Abstract Submission Guidelines:
- Abstracts should be submitted in English and must not exceed 300 words.
- Include title of the presentation, authors' names, affiliations, and contact information.
- It has to be as a Word document or PDF.
- Please use Times New Roman font, size 12 (Abstract), and single-spaced format.
- Include the title of the presentation as the document name.
- Submit your abstract via google form by 7th September 2023. Please click here to access the google form.
- Submissions will undergo a peer-review process, and accepted abstracts will be asked for oral presentation during the event.
- To participate in the event, you need to register at https://tropentag.de
We look forward to your valuable contributions to the Sustainable Farming Conference and to your participation in this exciting event. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at karun@suspot.org or visit our website for more information at https://suspot.org/events/tropentag-india
Please contact to any of the give numbers for queries:
- Rupesh Kaushik, LPU: Ph: 9034310929
- Karun Kumar, SusPoT: Ph: 9100582148
- Dr. Sapna Jarial, LPU: Ph: 7807202113
Sincerely,
Karun Kumar,
Event co-ordinator - India for Tropentag 2023
Associate Director, SusPoT – Center for Sustainability, India
Prof. Dr. Venkateswar Rao Pulikanti (Dr. P.V. Rao):- Prof. Dr. P.V. Rao former dean and head of the department of Crop Physiology, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU), India. He is currently the president of Ekalavya Organic Agricultural Polytechnic college, Vikarabad, Telangana State. He is also the chief advisor of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Telangana State and the member of board of directors for the school of agriculture, Mallareddy University, Telangana State, India.
Mr. Karun Kumar Yarlagadda:- Associate Director at SusPoT- Center for sustainability. Karun has more than 12 years of experience in the field of sustainable communities, climate change, agriculture, renewable energy and welfare economics. He graduated from University of Oldenburg, Germany and is a Returning Expert promoted by German Development Organization-GIZ/CIM. After returning to India in 2016, he worked for a year at Timbaktu Collective as a Field Coordinator in the organic farming and food processing division. Since then, he has spent considerable time in rural India and has developed a deeper understanding of issues pertaining to resilient communities and enterprises, alternate education systems, climate change and agriculture, youth and women empowerment.
Ms. Rama Devi Mandadi:- Ms. Rama devi has completed her master's in sustainable Agriculture and food security from the Royal Agriculture University, United Kingdom and Master's in Agronomy from the Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Uttarakhand, India. Ms. Rama organised and participated in national and international conferences over the past 10 years.
Dr Sapna Jarial is an Associate Professor, Agricultural Extension, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India.
- She brings over 12 years of experience in research for development, extension management and promotion of innovative crop-livestock systems in South Asia and tropical Africa.
- She achieved B.Sc. Agriculture from Chaudhary Sarvan Kumar Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Himachal Pradesh, M.Sc. Dairy Extension from the National Dairy Research Institute, India and PhD. in Dairy Extension Management from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana.
- She was DAAD Fellow at the Department of Resource Economics, Humboldt zu Berlin, Germany.
- Her research interests include extension advisory services, entrepreneurship, gender in crop-livestock systems, and innovation.