About the Conference

Sustainable livelihood is a top priority for the nation today. Over half the country’s working population is employed in agriculture and a sustained as well as steady growth in rural incomes is critical for a positive ripple impact on the manufacturing and services economies of the nation.

Today, India is self-suffcient in respect of demand for food, and is also a net exporter of agri-products but still agricultural growth is not keeping pace with the growth in other economic sectors. Economic indicators do not show equitable and egalitarian growth in income of the farmers. The human factor behind agriculture, the farmers, remain in frequent distress, despite higher productivity and production. It is with this backdrop that the Government of India has set a policy target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. The paradigm shift from production to income has implications in evolving strategies, identifying options and exploring innovative institutional mechanisms. It requires complete revamping and re-orientation of agri-food system, and strengthening of infrastructure and institutions in terms of new production systems, and farmers’ access to remunerative markets, credit, inputs, information and technologies.

Doubling Farmers’ Income through various credit and non-credit interventions involving all the stakeholders is a big challenge. Dynamics of these approaches for doubling farmers' income would revolve around reducing cost of production through technological changes, innovations and well planned market strategies to improve margin of profit, insulating against risks by insurance and landless allied activities to compliment the farmers’ income. This calls for a national dialogue to discuss all the issues for developing a well framed roadmap to boost agricultural productivity and to increase farmers’ income by switching to high value agriculture and diversifying to allied and non-farm activities. There is also need for framing policies focusing on allied activities through skill development programme and disseminating technology to the farmers. It requires a new strategy at the national level and implementation plans at the ground level.

Seminar Themes

About Dehradun

Dehradun is a calm and beautiful city on the foothills of Himalayas. The most striking feature you will find would be - Moderation. Not only it's one of the greenest cities of India; in both behavior of people and of mother nature, you will be awestruck by the strength and continuity of moderation. Perhaps that's why it has always been an Edcuation Hub, right from the times of ancient epic Mahabharata.

It's a fast emerging Industrial Hub also, which will enable Dehradun to absorb most of the young educated people from the region and outside.

The most sought after Hill Stations and Pilgrimage centers of Mussoorie (Queen of Hill Stations), Nainital, Rishikesh and Haridwar are less than about 3 hours by road.

About DBS School of Agriculture & Allied Sciences

DBS with integrated mandate of higher education started its journey about a decade back, in 2007. The DBS provides courses primarily in the areas of Business Management, Agricultural Management and Mass Communication, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Later on, considering the research, extension and educational needs in the agriculture sector of the state, DBS curved out the School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences. Agribusiness is the world’s oldest, largest, and most important industry. It is the business that enables the world to grow, trade, and feed everyone utilising the Earth’s finite resources. Today agribusiness has an image problem. The wider urbanised public perceive agriculture as ‘just farming’, just raising livestock and growing crops. Yet, agribusiness is a complex system involving a whole constellation of activities and supporting businesses that move food and fibre from where it is produced to where it is consumed. Societal expectations about the methods of production increasingly impact the industry. Agribusiness and agriculture are too important to ignore; and both are far too important for partisanship, the rising multi-lateral problems to society demand unity of purpose and action. DBS through agribusiness education in the Faculty of Agriculture, provides post-graduates capable of competition on local and international levels. The mission of the DBS School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences is to strive ahead and provide leadership in teaching, research and extension services related to agriculture and allied sciences. The institute endeavours to keep pace with new frontiers of science and contemporary development to be socially and technically relevant.

DBS provides a wholesome campus experience, where classroom learning is one part and experiential learning is another. Extracurricular activities and fun are equally important parts as well. When students with different viewpoints, different cultural and educational backgrounds come together, and the strong supporting structure (of faculty members) and fertile ground (of opportunities provided by DBS) are provided, Magic is created…

Call For Paper

Conceptual, review and research based papers and field case studies related to the seminar themes are invited. Hard and soft copies of abstract and full length paper typed in A4 size paper in Times New Roman in single space in MS word in given format should reach to Organizing Secretary by email. The contributed papers for the conference will be published in Edited Conference Volume and will be released and distributed during the conference with conference registration kit. Please format the full paper as per the guidelines and send the abstract and full paper before the suggested deadlines.

Presentation and Panel Discussion

• Invited/plenary lectures
• Oral presentation of selected papers
• Poster presentation

Besides oral presentations and posters exhibition on the main themes, there will be a panel discussion by eminent panelists (Policy makers, academicians, researchers, bankers, and development practitioners).

Target Participants

The seminar would be of great utility for researchers, academicians, policy planners, NGO's/grassroots mass mobilizers and students having interest in sustainable development in general and improving the quality of life of people in particular.

Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts and Papers

Abstracts are invited on any of the above themes or other related areas. The abstracts should not exceed 300 words, should be typed in MS word format with double space leaving 2.5 cm margin on all sides on A-4 size paper. The font should be Times New Roman in 12 pt size. Three to five key words should be given below the abstract in italics. The abstract should be sent through e-mail at conference@doonbusinessschool.com. A committee will review the abstracts and decide about the nature of presentation (oral/poster). Author(s) will be intimated regarding the acceptance of the papers. In case of Acceptance, full manuscript should be submitted in Word file and should not exceed 8000 words.

Important Dates

Accommodation

The registration fee does not include accommodation charges. Limited accommodation is available in the institute guest house. Most of the delegates will have to stay in the hotels and private guest houses. A wide range of hotels and guest houses are available in the vicinity of the conference venue. The likely tariffs are as under:

Registration Fee

Conference is open only for the registered participants. Registration fee is as under :

For Scientists, Academicians, Governmental Officials, NGO Personal, Corporate Sector Personal : Rs.3000
For Research Fellows : Rs.2000
For students : Rs.1000
Accompanying person : Rs.1500 per person
Late fee (after 25 April, 2018) : Rs.500 **

Registration fee includes seminar kit, local hospitality and local transport. The research fellows/students are required to produce a valid certificate from Principal / identity card of the institute for availing the research fellow/student discount.

Payment Mode

Registration fee should be sent through crossed bank draft in favour of "DBS for national conference on “Doubling Farmers’ Income: Technological and Management Interventions” at Dehradun, at following address: Dr. I.J.Gulati, Principal & Convener. Mobile: 9511561529, 8171228575, 9414603897, Phone: 0135-2699166 (O). Email: conference@doonbusinesssschool.com.

The registration fee may also be deposited online to the following account :
NEFT Transfer : Account No 1532000101322875, Punjab National Bank, IFS Code : PUNB0153200, Branch : Race Course, Dehradun.

Important Note : You may submit multiple papers for the conference. However, in the interest of fairness and as a function of the scheduling process, each presented paper must have a separate registered author. Therefore, you may co-author up to 3 presented papers, but there must be 3 registered participants-one available to present each of the three papers. In other words, there must be at least one, paid, in-person registration per paper presented at the conference.

Excursion Tour (20 May, 2018)

Post conference tour to the tourist spots of Mussoorie will be organized for the registered and interested delegates and accompanying persons on payment.

Sponsorship and Advertisement Opportunities:

Interested organizations/agencies are invited to be co-sponsors of the Conference. Delegates will be allowed to attend the Conference if an agency extends good support to the Conference financially. Number of participants from a firm will be decided by the Organising Committee based on the financial support.

A compendium containing lead papers and abstracts will be released during the conference. Organizers also welcome advertisements in the Compendium/Souvenir and at the venue. Advertisements in the Compendium will have the following tariff :

Patron

Mr. Mohit Aggarwal
Chairman

Advisory Committee

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