CII Agro Tech Summit from Saturday

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will host the 11th edition of its Biennial Agro Technology & Business Fair, 'CII Agro Tech 2014', from 22-25 November, 2014, in Chandigarh to take Indian Agriculture to the next level. The fair will be inaugurated on Saturday by Parkash Singh Badal, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Punjab; Manohar Lal Khattar, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Haryana, and Brad Wall, Hon'ble Premier of Saskatchewan (Canada), in the presence of Ashish Bahuguna, Secretary - Agriculture, and Siraj Hussain, Secretary-Food Processing Industries.

The summit is expecting participation of approximately 50,000 farmers from different states.

"With a large domestic and international presence, including 36 international exhibitors and 126 domestic exhibitors, the Agro Fair will host 8 concurrent shows including Farm Tech Show, Food Expo, Food Tech, Good Earth, Implementex, Water & Irrigation Management, Livestock Expo, States of India Pavilion, and International Pavilion amongst others", according to CII.

"The fair will feature 5 international country specific conferences by participants from Africa, Germany and Pakistan. There would also be farmers', scientists' & industry delegation visits from Pakistan, Gambia, New Zealand, and exhibitors from 10 countries and 15 Indian states, with the attempt to take the Indian agriculture to the next level", said a CII Release announcing the event.

The CII Agro Tech 2014 is expecting participation of approximately 50,000 farmers from states including Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu etc. Participants from countries like Bangladesh, China, Canada, Pakistan, Nepal and New Zealand are also expected to join in the mega fair.

"Agro Tech is much in sync with the Modi Government's thrust on improving agriculture productivity, enhance farmer's earnings, increase Agriculture's (falling share) in India's GDP and attaining self reliance. It would aim to bridge the gap between the farming community, scientists and latest innovations, practices and technologies available both nationally and globally in agriculture and bring them on a common platform for the benefit of the farmer", as per the CII Release.