Here is the statement from Dean, Research together with Development:
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I am vey happy to inform you lot that this yr IIT Kanpur is a recipient of the Agriculture Leadership Awards. These awards were given on 19th Sept, 2012 by the Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Agriculture Sri Harish Rawat at a business office inwards New Delhi. Dr. G due south Swaminathan was the Chairman of the Jury.
The detailed citation of the accolade says "IIT Kanpur, a premier technology scientific discipline together with query found of the country, has successfully implemented diverse agricultural projects amongst innovative technologies together with capacity edifice for sustainable development. Its Agropedia, a semantically enabled agricultural knowledge administration repository is a showtime of its form inwards Indian agriculture. The Institute’s silent around other product, Openagri, an opened upwardly access agriculture query repository, is a focused query infinite for hosting agriculture documents. IIT-Kanpur’s Voice-Krishi Vigyan Kendra (vKVK), developed to facilitate communication betwixt extension personnel together with farming communities is before long reaching to the extension personnel of ninety Krishi Vigyan Kendras together with probable to endure upwardly scaled past times ICAR to all 630 KVKs inwards the twelfth Five Year Plan. KVK-Net together with Agrotagger was equally good developed past times this prestigious institution."
Here is the link to agropedia
And hither is the link to openagri
Finally, you lot tin abide by to a greater extent than virtually Prof. T V Prabhakar at his homepage
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I am vey happy to inform you lot that this yr IIT Kanpur is a recipient of the Agriculture Leadership Awards. These awards were given on 19th Sept, 2012 by the Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Agriculture Sri Harish Rawat at a business office inwards New Delhi. Dr. G due south Swaminathan was the Chairman of the Jury.
The accolade is inwards recognition of the innovative knowledge administration model inwards agriculture extension developed past times Prof. T V Prabhakar, Department of Computer Science together with Engineering through several projects funded past times ICAR, NAIP, BITCOE etc.
Other awardees include:
National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources for particular travel inwards conservation of genetic resources
Nuziveedu Seeds Limited for particular travel inwards agriculture extension
Suguna Foods Limited for particular job concern leadership inwards poultry sector inwards India
Indian Oil Corporation Limited for environs friendly products together with farm sustainability
State of Kerala for innovative policy initiatives towards transforming horticulture
State of Madhya Pradesh for visionary leadership together with particular functioning inwards farm production
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Here is the link to agropedia
And hither is the link to openagri
Finally, you lot tin abide by to a greater extent than virtually Prof. T V Prabhakar at his homepage
