The NAAS in collaboration with the ICAR and Indian Agricultural Research Institute will
be organizing XIV Agricultural Science Congress at New Delhi , India, from February 20-23,
2019 on the theme “Innovations for Agricultural Transformation”. The four-day event
will include technical sessions, plenary sessions, public lectures, farmers sessions,
poster presentations, inter-university student elocution contest, panel discussions and
number of satellite meetings. Moreover, ASC-AgriTech-2019 exhibition will be a major
event in this Congress. A large number of participants cutting across the disciplines of
researchers, faculty, policy makers, farmers, entrepreneurs, development departments,
corporate and private sector leaders, NGOs and students shall be attending this biennial
Congress of the Academy.
The theme of the Congress, “Innovations for Agricultural Transformation”, is central
to the national complementary pledges of building a New India and Doubling Farmers’
Income by 2022. The New India must be free from hunger, undernutrition, poverty, and
glaring inequalities. And, Agriculture is the foremost sector to free the nation of these
persisting maladies. The Congress will provide an intellectually rich multi-stakeholder
platform for discussing and critically analyzing veritable disruptive innovations for
transforming agriculture and food systems to reshape India. The Congress will
showcase agriculture not only as the main source of employment and livelihood security
for nearly 50 percent of India’s population, bulging to be the largest in the world by 2025,
but also as a business opportunity, service provider, industry, and ecosystem protector.