AGRICULTURAL GRADUATE STUDENTS CONFERENCE 2015

OVERVIEW

The Agricultural Graduate Students Conference (AGSC), first of its kind in India, is a two day event, will be held in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore on May 13 & 14, 2015. TNAU-AGSC 2015 will be one of the leading student conferences in the agricultural sciences. This conference revolves around the theme

                                      ‘Impact of climate risks on Agricultural and Horticultural productivity’.

Call for Extended abstract
Contributing papers are invited on the above themes (Oral and poster). Extended abstracts for Oral/Poster presenta-tion should be in a maximum of 2 pages including the title, authors and address. Extended abstracts should be prepared in MS Word, Times New Roman, 12 font size and single space leaving 1" margin on the left and right sides of a page. The papers presented will be published, as extended summaries and selected research article will be peer reviewed and pub-lished as a book with ISBN . The manuscript of the full length paper may be prepared as per the format of the Journal. An author can present only one paper. Extended abstracts should be submitted to agscacrc@gmail.com

Who?
The conference is designed for young agricultural researchers from various agricultural universities. All agricultural post graduate and doctorate students of any nationality who are currently studying in India will be invited to attend.

What?
The two day conference consists of a plenary session, concurrent thematic sessions and a valedictory session. Plenary session will include a formal inauguration, a keynote address and few selected outstanding student papers of current interest which will set the tone of the conference.

Concurrence thematic sessions consists of a few lead papers followed by oral presentations by the students. Concurrent sessions will be spread out over two days. The sessions will be divided into different categories to cover different topics and will be supervised by the students facilitated by an experienced faculty in that field together. This will be culminated into corresponding poster session in the same venue in order to facilitate one-to-one interaction with the presenter.

Thematic areas:
1. Frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and socio-economic impacts.
2. Impact of climate on pests and diseases of agricultural and horticultural crops.
3. Impacts of climate variability and environment on physiological responses to agriculture and horticulture crops.
4. Crop and varietal improvement, seed production and biotechnological approaches to mitigate the climate change impacts on agricultural and horticultural crops.
5. Farm mechanization for soil and moisture conservation and alternative energy sources to enhance the crop productivity, climate oriented post harvest technology and management for agricultural and horticultural crops.
6. Weather forecasting in climate risk reduction and agro advisory services for response farming, extension tools to increase climate change awareness and gender mainstreaming in climate change adaptation.

About AGSC
AGSC-TNAU offers a stimulating venue for student research exchange and gives student the opportunity to broaden their social and scientific network. This scien-tific program includes a variety of student research from all over India and overseas, which will be presented in poster, oral or plenary form to an international and professional audience.

Call for Extended abstract
Contributing papers are invited on the above themes (Oral and poster). Extended abstracts for Oral/Poster presenta-tion should be in a maximum of 2 pages including the title, authors and address. Extended abstracts should be prepared in MS Word, Times New Roman, 12 font size and single space leaving 1" margin on the left and right sides of a page. The papers presented will be published, as extended summaries and selected research article will be peer reviewed and pub-lished as a book with ISBN . The manuscript of the full length paper may be prepared as per the format of the Journal. An author can present only one paper. Extended abstracts should be submitted to agscacrc@gmail.com

Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- per student
Payment through online https://www.onlinesbi.com/prelogin/icollecthome.htm?corpID=344449

Important dates
Last date of submission of abstracts: 31.03.2015 Notification for presentation: 23.04.2015

Organizers
Patron : Dr. K. Ramasamy, Vice- Chancellor

Organizing Mentor: Dr. S. Panneerselvam, Professor & Head (ACRC)
Dr. S. Mohan, Dean (SPGS)
Dr. K. Velayudham, Director (DCM)
Dr. K. Ramaraju, Director (CPPS)

Organizing Secretary :
Mr. P. Arunkumar, I Ph. D (Meteorology)
Ms. C. Pradipa , II M. Sc (Agrl. Meteorology)

Contact Information
The Dean School of Post Graduate Studies Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore – 641 003.
Email: deanspgs@tnau.ac.in

Further queries?
mail to: agscacrc@gmail.com

Visit: http://agridr.in/agsc/about.html