Panicker and Srivastava attend international conference at New Delhi, India
Alcorn State University employees Dr. Girish Panicker, director of the Center for Conservation Research, and Mr. Ashwani Srivastava, chief extension associate, ASU Extension Program (ASUEP), represented the University and shared its global extension and research vision during the International Conference on ”Innovative Approaches for Agricultural Knowledge Management, Global Extension Experiences” organized by International Society of Extension Education (INSEE) and Indian Council of Agricultural Research held recently in New Delhi, India. ASU along with Iowa State University were among global partners in the conference from United States of America.
This high profile international conference was attended by Smt. Pratibha Patil, president of India, and top notch agriculture extension and research scientists from across the world. The major thrust of the conference was “How to minimize the gap between agriculture knowledge generation and knowledge dissemination using multidimensional approaches” including Information and Communication Tools (ICT). There were over 2,000 participants attending the conference and over 800 papers were presented.
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