12022020 Tirupati, SVEC:
- Minimum 10K agripreneurs needed
- Vast potential for ideating brains
- Engineers can solve agriproblems
- ANGRAU helps in all ways
- Good farmer good nation
WISSIONTALKS STARTUP AWARENESS YATRA (WTSAY) resumed at SRI VENKATESWARA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, Tirupati on Monday (10022020). WTSAY is sponsored by Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation.
The college was headed by visionary academicians who encouraged youngsters to become leaders in their own domains. This was quite visible with the number of events taking place on the campus.
Dr T KALPALATHA REDDY and Dr N SUDHAKAR REDDY, principals of SV ENGINEERING COLLEGE FOR WOMEN and SV COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING were enthusiastic duo who had a farsighted mindset to give the best to their students to let them excel in their field of interests. in a nutshell they were churning out leaders to be change catalysts in building a responsible society.
This event saw speakers from many domains talking about their StartUp journey. The most interesting was delivered by Dr KADIRI MOHAN, Principal Investigator & Chief Executive Officer, Regional Agricultural Research Station, Tirupati.
ANGRAU invited with open hands techies to demonstrate their prowess in various challenges that were bothering the agricultural sector. Agriculture was the main activity during the beginning of our civilization and hence the oldest economic generator. However the recent generators have overtaken this old machine and there are very few takers to adopt this profession.
Continuance of this pathetic situation will only deteriorate the food security of the nation. To avoid such a situation today’s techies must concentrate on this segment and add their creative niche in making farming a tech driven, which in turn will attract even the elite to take it up as a lucrative option.
Minimum 10000 StartUps are needed to make this dream a reality. Working on this vision ANGRAU is ready to extend any help to upcoming agri-ideators. During the Session Dr KADIRI MOHAN spoke about the services extended by ANGRAU-AGRI INNOVATIONS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CELL and ANGRAU POSHAN INCUBATOR.
Dr KADIRI MOHAN added, ‘Yoch-2019 is an Agri based Entrepreneurship Orientation Programme envisioned under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) – Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied Sectors Rejuvenation (RAFTAAR)-Agri-Business Incubation scheme providing an opportunity to students, youth, smart farmers, women or any interested individuals in Agri and Allied sectors for working on their innovative ideas for development of product/service/prototype towards establishing their Agri based startups.’
Dr KADIRI MOHAN briefed ‘AgriInvo-2019 is an Agri-Business incubation programme to provide support to the startups having innovative product, service and business process/models at Minimum Viable Product (MVP) stage in the agriculture and allied sectors which are ready to be commercialized. The programme will create an ecosystem where in, it will facilitates startups to engage with industry experts, subject mentors, academicians and funding institutions under one roof for prompting startups by strengthening business plans providing network platforms, upscaling the budding business through in house technical support from ANGRAU POSHAN INCUBATOR Tirupati.’
In conclusion he suggested that where ever there are problems there are opportunities as well. Technical brains must work on bringing back prosperity into this centuries old domain.
As an active partner to WTSAY, Way2World represented by RajKishan Ganta also spoke that the country was going through a golden age, because of the maximum number of citizens being in the age group of 18-35 years. And if the students decide to synergize then the nation’s developed status is not far away.
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