Vinay of Proximal Soilsens Tech

A talk on the sensor technology from lab to field: Its Challenges and how to mitigate. His talk will also give overview on business model for the Agri-start-ups.

Biography:

Prof. Vinay Palaparthy received the M.Sc. (Hons.) degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2018. He is currently working in the field of Microelectromechanical system MEMS)/Nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) sensor design, 2-D nanomaterials and embedded system design primarily focusing on the in-situ agriculture applications. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India. He has 25 research publications and two Indian patent awarded on his ongoing work. Dr. Palaparthy was awarded Inspire Fellowship for his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Science and Technology (DST). He has one best paper award in an international journal. He was a co-recipient of the Millennium Alliance Award for the startup name Proximal Soilsens Technologies Pvt., Ltd., where he is one of co-founder.

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Address:Gandhinagar, India

Anup of Insignex

In India, we have more cultivated and arable land than any other country. But we have very poor production per hector and so is agriculture GDP. Even though production in agriculture depends on many different parameters, where some are – e.g. weather; beyond anyone's control. We can improve production by more disciplined and data driven decisions by various degree of automation.
There are variety of challenges farmers have in adopting different degree of automation. They range from know-how for selecting system, initial cost, maintenance or ongoing-cost, down-time, malfunctioning systems and most importantly in Indian context small size operating land holding. Even system-design-side has many challenges ranging from need for high-degree customization, harsh operating conditions, untrained users and maintainers. Building systems which addresses above challenges with less than 4 years of RoI is difficult problem to solve.

Biography:

Anup Shah, founder of InSignEx is alumnus of IISc Bangalore and BVM V.V.Nagar, Anand. He worked at Tata Elxsi, Bangalore, India, followed by Magnum Semiconductor Inc, Fremont, USA as Principal Engineer focusing on multi-processor hardware accelerators, video-quality and SoC resource allocation. His area of expertise includes building scalable embedded software of large software for long term stability. At InSignEx, his team has developed complete solution for smart-farming e.g. mobile based agriculture irrigation, fertigation automation, green-house climate control system, with focus to Indian context

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Address:Anand, India

Ranendu of DA-IICT, Gandhinagar

A talk on detection of the heavy metals in the soil using image based methods.

Biography:

Dr. Ranendu Ghosh has completed his post graduation and Ph.D. from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi in Soil Chemistry and Plant Nutrition. After finishing his degree from IARI, he joined SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad as scientist. During his stay at SAC (ISRO) he contributed in various national missions for the application of satellite remote sensing and communication technology for the development and planning of natural resources in the country. He has taken voluntary retirement from SAC, ISRO and joined as a full time faculty at DA-IICT in 2010. Some of the major projects he participated are Village Resources Center (VRC), National Resources Information System (NRIS), and Integrated Mission for Sustainable Development (IMSD). As part of VRC project Dr. Ghosh coordinated the activities of designing and implementing 11 student and 4 master nodes in the villages of Kutch, Ahmedabad, Surendranagar for tele-medicine, tele-education. In recognition to his contribution for developing a tele medicine center at Sabarmati jail and connecting with Apollo hospital, Dr.Ghosh and Gujarat Police, was jointly conferred with Manthan Award South Asia 2009 by Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi. Dr. Ghosh is also recipient of prestigious ISRO Team Excellence Award and Best Teacher Award, DA-IICT in 2012 and 2015 respectively. Dr. Ghosh has published number of scientific papers in national and international journals of repute.

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Address:DA-IICT, Near Indroda Circle, , Gandhinagar, India, 382007

Yogesh of Director, ACT, Bhuj

Arid Communities and Technologies is a professional voluntary organization (PVO) based at Bhuj. activities. ACT is on mission to strengthening livelihoods of communities in arid and semi-arid regions by resolving ecological constraints through, provision or facilitation of access to technologies, or engender technological and institutional solutions in collaboration with communities. Experiences and results achieved thus far discussed in this talk.

Biography:

Dr. Yogesh Jadeja received the M.Sc. degree from M. S. University of Baroda, in 1993, Post Graduate Diploma in Ecology and Environment in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree from the M. S. University of Baroda, India in 2005 From September 1993 to February 2004 he worked with Sahjeevan (formerly known as Jan Vikas Ecology Cell), Bhuj, a voluntary organization working on the eco-restoration and development aspects of the Kachchh region of Gujarat State. It emphasizes on empowering the rural communities to make choices for development through an active process of organizing and lobbying. It supports its activities by research and development studies to generate sustainable livelihoods. Currently He is working with Arid Communities and Technologies (ACT-Bhuj) as Director, from March 2004. ACT is a professional voluntary organization (PVO) based at Bhuj with a mission to strengthening livelihoods of communities in arid and semi-arid regions by resolving ecological constraints through, provision or facilitation of access to technologies, or engender technological and institutional solutions in collaboration with communities. It is important to mention that He was the main founder member of this institute. 

Address:Bhuj, India

Hitesh of NIT Warangal

A talk on Nanomaterials for Agri-sensors. It encomapsses how to build nano-material, characterise them, test them for reliability and repeatability. Subsequently it touches how to make N, P, K sensors from similar processes with subtle changes.

Biography:

Prof. Hitesh Borkar is currently working as the assistant professor at National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India and associated with the department of chemistry. His research work includes Electronic, energy, and magnetic materials for energy storage and harvesting, Functional materials, 2D materials for electronic devices, Material characterizations, Ferroelectric materials for non-volatile memory applications, Transparent photovoltaic devices, ferro-photovoltaic materials, opto-electronics, Lead-free piezoelectric sensors and actuators, Electrocaloric effect and its phenomenon in polar electroceramic materials. He has more than 30 research articles in the field of Nanomaterials and nanotechnology

Address:Hyderabad, India