| Technical Programme | |
| September 09, 2024 | |
| 08:00-09:30 hours | Registration of delegates |
| 09:30-11:00 hours | Inaugural Session |
| 11:00 - 1:30hours | High Tea |
| 11:30 - 13:00 hours | Technical Session I:Alternate crops for health and nutritional security Plenary Lecture: Speaker: Prof. Chittaranjan Kole, Ex-Director of Research, Institute of Nutraceutical Research, Clemson University, USA Dr. T. Satyavathi, Director, ICAR-National Millets Research Institute, Hyderabad Oral presentations |
| 13:00 - 14:00 hours | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:00 hours | Technical Session -II Diversity of Alternate crops Plenary Lecture: Speaker: Dr. Jawaharlal Karihaloo, Former Coordinator, Asia Pacific Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology.New Delhi, India Invited lecture: Speaker: Dr. Subash Babu, ICAR-IARI, PUSA, New Delhi Oral Presentations: |
| 16:00 - 16:15 hours | Coffee/ Tea Break & Discussions |
| 16:15 - 17:00 hours | Special Lecture: Speaker: Prof. Kadambot Siddique,Hackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and Director, UWA Institute of Agriculture,University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia |
| 19:00 hours Onwards | 1. Felicitation of Prof. Chittaranjan Kole and Prof. Ivan Kreft with Lifetime Achievement awards 2. Cultural evening followed by Dinner |
| September 10, 2024 | |
| 09:30 -11:30 hours | Technical session-II : Breeding barriers in alternate crops Keynote lecture: Speaker: Dr. Bal Krishna Joshi, NAGRC, Kathmandu, Nepal Invited lectures: Speakers: Prof. Manoj Prasad, Delhi University, Delhi & Adjunct Professor, University of Hyderabad, India Dr. J. C. Rana, National Coordinator, Bioversity International, New Delhi Oral presentations: |
| 11:30 - 11:45 hours | Coffee / Tea Break |
| 11:45 -13:30 hours | Technical session -III: Value addition in alternate crops Keynote lecture: Speaker: Prof. Bidyut Sharma, Director, DBT-North East Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology, AAU, Jorhat Invited lectures: Speakers: Prof. Manoj Dhar, Director, Director, CSIR- AcCSIR, New Delhi Prof. Wricha Tyagi, International Crops Research Inst. for Semi Arid Tropics, Hyderabad Oral presentations: |
| 13:30 - 14:15 hours | Lunch |
| 14:15 - 16:45 hours | Technical session -IV: Entrepreneurship with alternate crops and Foods Presentation by Meghalaya Farmers (empowerment) commission, Govt of Meghalaya Display of value-added foods developed from alternate crops Interactive session with farmers |
| 16:45 - 17:00 hours | Coffee/Tea break and Poster Display |
| 17:00 - 17:45 hours | Special Lecture: Speaker: Dr. Autar Mattoo, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA, USA |
| 19:30 hours onwards | Cultural program followed by Dinner |
| September 11, 2024 | |
| 09:30 - 11:30 hours | Technical session V: Alternate crops as “Smart Foods” Keynote lecture: Speaker: Prof. Tatsuro Suzuki, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan Invited lectures: Speakers: Prof. Rakhee Chaturvedi, IIT, Guwahati Prof. S. K. Barik, NEHU, Shillong Oral presentations |
| 11:30 - 11:45 hours | Coffee/ Tea Break and Discussions |
| 11.30-13:00 hours | Technical Session VI: Accelerating the domestication of alternate crops Keynote lecture: Speaker: Prof. Zhou Meilliang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Invited lectures: Speaker: Dr. Sushil Subedi, Agriculture Research Station, Vijaynagar, Nepal Dr. Muthumaralisaran, University of Hyderabad, India Oral presentations |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 -15:30 | Technical Session VII:Climate resilience traits in alternate crops Keynote lecture: Speaker: Prof. Ashwani Pareekh, Director, DBT-NABI, Punjab & Adjunct Professor, University of Western Australia, Australia Invited lectures: Speakers: Prof. Mateja Germ, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Dr. Blanka Vomberger, Centre for Food Technology, Maribor, Slovenia Oral presentations |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Tea/ Coffee Break and Poster display |
| 16:30 - 17:15 hours | Special lecture Speaker: Prof. Umesh Reddy,West Virginia State University, USA |
| 17:30 onwards | Sunset Cruise over River Brahmaputra followed by Dinner |
| September 12, 2024 | |
| 09:30-10:30 hours | General Assembly of the delegates |
| 10:30-11:30 hours | Valedictory function |
| 11.30-12:00 hours | High tea |
| 12:00 hours onwards | Sight seeing |