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            <b>Uma Nair</b> - On behalf of ASSOCHAM, I welcome the honorable minister BC Patil….sir welcome to the program and on behalf of ASSOCHAM I would like to welcome all the dignities of program on the webinar on impact of Covid-19 on  agro and food processing industries in the state of Karnataka.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'>BC Patil - Thank you. Good Moring all</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma Nair</b> - On behalf of ASSOCHAM I would like to extend my gratitude to each 
           and everybody who had given their valuable time for this session. So thank you 
           very much. I would also like to extend my thanks to NABARD who has in fact 
           come and collaborated for this particular session. Thank you sir, thank you very 
           much. We also have one more banking partner, The Karnataka Bank which is 
           also come on to the board as the banking partner. So now let&apos;s move on to the 
           session, I would like to welcome all the dignities and also our honorable minister 
           for this webinar from ASSOCHAM. Before we move on to the session I would like 
           to introduce Dr. Suresh who is the chairmen for agriculture committee for 
           ASSOCHAM. Dr. Suresh, it&apos;s over to you.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Dr. Suresh</b> - Thank you ma&apos;am. Good Moring everybody. Covid has affected all 
           over the world and agriculture and food processing are the same kind. Those two 
           are the most important for everybody&apos;s life wherein agriculture produce in the 
           main raw material for most of the food processing. Even though they are two 
           separate entities, they go hand in hand to produce safe food for us. In food 
           processing chain, the supply chain management of agriculture food produce is 
           most important for effective distribution of the food across the world. So during 
           Covid-19, because of this lockdown, supply chain management is effected 
           drastically. Wherein we have to appreciate govt. of Karnataka and govt. of India 
           and especially Karnataka&apos;s agricultural department and agricultural invocities. 
           They have opened a agri-ware room and we have congratulate our agricultural 
           minister who has travelled across the state throughout the Covid period to help 
           the farmers and it has helped them a lot to distribute their agriculture products 
           to the consumers directly. In supply chain, we have two different entities: the 
           storage and marketing. Our present webinar will revolve around the storage 
           aspects which helps in reducing post-harvest plasters and the second one is the 
           marketing which helps in penetrating the markets to a greater extent across the 
           world to increase the profitability to all stake holders. With these two aspects in</p> 
            <p style='text-align:justify;'>mind, we thought of organizing this webinar. We are concentrating only on what 
           has happened in Karnataka. In this webinar we&apos;ll find out the possible solutions 
           for both storage and marketing of the agricultural food products and to have a 
           smooth supply chain during fighting times like Covid-19. Thank you so much.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you very much sir. Now I would like to request our honorable 
           agriculture minister BC Patil to release a knowledge report. This knowledge 
           report has come out with the collaboration with NABARD.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>BC Patil</b> - Thank you ma&apos;am. It is my pleasure to be a part of this webinar 
           organized by NABARD and ASSOCHAM. I am happy to release knowledge report 
           of ASSOCHAM and NABARD on impact of Covid-19 on agro and food processing 
           industries in the state of Karnataka.</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you sir. Due to the lockdown, we couldn&apos;t send the hard copy 
           so we thought we would release the soft copy and then we&apos;ll distribute the hard 
           copy. I would like to pass on the floor to the honorable minister of agriculture
           BC Patil to deliver the inaugural address. It&apos;s over to you sir.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'>(Honorable minister of agriculture BC Patil&apos;s speech has been delivered to 
           the media)</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you so much sir. Definitely after the program we will come up 
           with a recommendation and submit it to the honorable minister. Thank you sir 
           for your valuable time and for coming here and showing your presence to this 
           particular program and I would like to ask you sir, we have good number of agri 
           students attending this particular program from different universities, do you 
           have anything to tell them sir?</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>BC Patil</b> - I would like to tell all the agri students not to depend on jobs of the 
           govt. They should go to the villages and start farming. So that they can be a 
           good doctors to the farmers. They can teach, they can make the farmers to know 
           how technology can be used and how scientific things can be used by the farmers 
           to develop and produce and doubling the income of the farmers. And now most 
           of the students are getting in the govt. jobs and I want agri students to be like 
           doctors to the farmers. In Karnataka 79ABC of revenue act has been amended 
           and now anybody can go and purchase the land and can start cultivation and 
           farming. I want young minds, young thoughts, young thinking should duck to 
           the villagers and start farming. By doing this, Indian economy can boost up and 
           fulfil our PM&apos;s dream.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma Nair</b> - Thank you very much sir. It was in fact an inspirational words to the 
           students community as you rightly mentioned, we need to see many youths 
           going back to the farming community because they are going to be our next 
           future so need to have students getting into that particular sector to increase 
           the GDP of our country. So thank you very much for your time sir.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>BC Patil</b> - One more thing I want to bring it to your kind notice, I want to start 
           agri tourism for the city people, where the city people, students and most of the 
           children doesn&apos;t know how paddy/rice are formed. They don&apos;t know if rice is 
           coming from paddy. I have already given a suggestion to the educational 
           minister Suresh Kumar to start agri tourism. Another thing is weekend 
           farming. All the youngsters and engineers are wasting their time by visiting pubs 
           and other things. Instead of that, they can visit any village and start weekend 
           farming.</p>


            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma Nair</b> - That&apos;s really a good idea sir. I think your words have reached the 
           audience and we&apos;ll see what changes happens in our coming days. Actually 
           agriculture is the backbone of our country and I think every individual youths 
           and youngster should focus on that to see that the GDP of our country will grow 
           on agriculture. Thank you very much for your time sir. Now I would like to move 
           to the next topic of the day that is the panel discussion. The panel discussion is 
           about the importance of the storage structure and strengthening of agriculture 
           and food processing supply chain as rightly mentioned by Dr. Suresh, during 
           pandemic supply chain was badly affected. ASSOCHAM has been deliberating on 
           this topic every year including this and Amit Ji is also a part of this. I think 
           everybody understood that supply chain is very important aspect in the 
           agricultural food processing when it has to come from the farm to the market 
           supply chain makes a crucial role in this agricultural food processing industry. I 
           would not take much of your time, I would like to welcome Rwitwika
           Bhattacharya who is the CEO and the founder of Swaniti initiative, who is going 
           to moderate this entire session. We have Sri. Neeraj Kumar Varma, the CGF 
           Karnataka regional office NABARD, welcome sir. Sri Amith Vatsyan who is the 
           partner of agri and social sector advisory Africa India and Middle East from 
           Earnst&young welcome sir. We have Sri Shivanand Rai who is the general 
           manager of central warehousing corporation ministry of food and public 
           distribution system govt. of India and director for Karnataka state warehousing 
           corporation from ministry of GOK, welcome sir. We have the final speaker Dr. KC 
           Gummagolmath, he is from institutional management from Hyderabad. So 
           Rwitwika, the floor is onto you so you can take the discussion forward</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderator</b> - Thank you so much for that Uma, that was really a wonderful 
           introduction really appreciate it. I think it&apos;s really wonderful to know that we are 
           in an ecosystem right now where there is so much social, political, economic will 
           to strengthen food processing, to strengthen warehousing and to really focus on 
           the agricultural sector and we see that right from the central govt. down to the 
           state govt., I think there is so much potential right know to transform the</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'>agricultural industry and we see that through the ordnance whether that&apos;s an 
           essential commodity act or whether that&apos;s a incredible focus in various states, 
           Of course including Karnataka o build infrastructural want to take up much of 
           your time. I do want to briefly mention the intent of the panel today would be to 
           examine warehousing ecosystem, agricultural ecosystem in different perspective. 
           So I request each speaker to talk about their backgrounds that they bring in 
           before Covid and of course the social capital, the political capital that Covid has 
           built in and the promise that holds. So I would love to start off with Amith ji. 
           How do you see Covid affecting agro and food processing industry and what are 
           the other possibilities?</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Amith Ji</b> - Thank you. Hello everyone. I think we need to look at Covid along 
           with that also look at Atma Nirbar Bharat Abyan the way govt. has responded. 
           Covid has caused huge destruction and we know that the supply chain has 
           disturbed in a major way and also the existing processing unit which were 
           suffering before Covid and govt. has taken multiple measures but I think along 
           with that historical modulance which has opened up the space for much better 
           vertical integration as well as the ordinance within the Karnataka govt. being 
           able to trade across the area by farmers. To the question which I going to focus 
           on is that now space have been opened up What would be needed in the 
           ecosystem to be able to capture the opportunities. So just to say that if we 
           currently look at Karnataka it is ranked 7th as far as infrastructure is concerned 
           and it needs additional 2 million metric ton of storage capacity. So if one has to 
           respond to honorable minister sir vision that there is an opportunity for 
           processing and there is an aim to increase the number. Along with that both 
           storage and processing needs to be aligned and later in the conversation I would 
           also talk about specific type of storages. The other thing which is also important 
           is that storage of processing and that has been our experience with MOFPI and 
           with other schemes that it is very important that these storages of processing 
           are part of larger value chain supply chain integration where at one end farmers 
           are involved so already multiple stimulus have been announced including the 1 
           lakh crore stimulus for the infrastructure. At the other end we have got buyers 
           and large companies which have been responding to consumers at Karnataka 
           level or also I believe for Karnataka the big opportunity is looking at national 
           and very importantly irrational market. To be specific it&apos;s Middle East and CIS 
           markets. All of this cannot be achieved until and unless the missing medal of 
           storage and infrastructure is put in place otherwise farmers will continue to 
           produce great stuff. I have been to Bagakot, I have been to many of the areas in 
           Karnataka and farmers are one of the most entrepreneurs people. They are 
           producing and that needs to come. That I think is one important piece and one 
           action that I would like to highlight is that infrastructure needs to be built and 
           recognized based upon what is being produced. So I would highly recommend a 
           cluster way of thinking recognizing what are the key areas that the particular 
           commodities are developing so that the storage and processing is aligned to the 
           production and aligned to the final demand and agro cluster approach where 
           FPO&apos;s are at the base is going to be critical. The second thing which I think is 
           absolutely important is that just the way Karnataka earlier lead with electronics</p>
            <p style='text-align:justify;'>and investment in IT sector is very important to facilitate the current 
           connection between the buyers who are coming in and the producers, the FPO&apos;s 
           who are there so digit connection specially in Covid context where physically is 
           very hard to figure out who is what, who is going to be very important to the 
           ecosystem. On boarding the third point which I want to make it is about on 
           boarding the warehouses and supporting private storage which can also be 
           declared as marketing art specially in the intalent because the private sector will 
           be able to reach out areas which are accessible but in north Karnataka and in 
           deep south, it going to be very important to build this type of an analysis. The 
           last point I want to mention is currently while the processing policy have come 
           in but Karnataka level policy on FPO which has aligned with the guidelines 
           which has been released but which answers the state wants to do and also takes 
           into account the contract farming module so that Karnataka as a comprehensive
           will go a long way to respond to how the clusters and the infrastructure is going 
           to be supported at the bottom. Lastly, this is a particular recommendation I 
           would like to give, the micro food enterprise scheme has been launched under 
           MOFPI and its very important and honorable minister in talking in farming 
           which it&apos;s going to be good food entrepreneurship which is supported extensively 
           as part of ecosystem for farming and along with that is to just to summarize the 
           strengthening FPO&apos;s at the bottom part of the ecosystem building 
           infrastructures around clusters developing policies to support this and getting 
           the infrastructure on board where they are going to avail various benefits which 
           currently govt. is offering going to be crucial to respond to the opportunities 
           which exist for Karnataka.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderator</b> - Thank you for that. It was very helpful. We are now going to discuss 
           two threats that you discussed and take that to other panelist. On is to talk 
           about infrastructure and need to align infrastructure in a better way for optimal 
           output. To that end I actually wanted to turn towards to Shivanand Rai who 
           I wanted to identify special experience form the central warehousing perspective 
           and looking at it from policy and how we can strengthen policy that can help the 
           larger ecosystem further, what are the policies that you think make sense to 
           focus on?</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shivanand Rai</b> - Good morning to all participants and honorable minister BC 
           Patil sir. It is a great opportunity for me. I can summarize and CWC is around 10 
           million tons capacities all over India and Karnataka we are having around 4.5 
           metric ton. Karnataka state warehousing corporation is having around 17 lakh 
           metric ton with the help of NABARD and total food corporation of India is having 
           around 4 lakh metric ton. Total warehousing that is listed under WDRA so they 
           see that all warehouses should be scientific senders. All over country it is 1799 
           has been registered. So these are the basics and during the lockdown CWC all 
           over India has handled about 100 lakh metric ton of food ware and 20 lakh 
           metric ton for public distribution system and in Karnataka 2-3 lakh so is coming 
           to that further we have container filter essentials and still in this Covid period 
           the only problem we are facing is labour problem. Otherwise or warehouses are 
           heading on full capacity so we still want to expand the basic</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderators</b> - Thank you for that sir. It was very helpful. Moving the 
           infrastructure that existed and moving the amount of work that has been done, 
           one thing Amith Ji mentioned was FPO. About the ecosystem face and then 
           there is capital which is on the ground and which is executing on these firms. So 
           Dr. KC I actually want to turn towards you and you had mentioned very success 
           stories especially in this ecosystem, given there are chance to improve 
           infrastructure, to improve capacity and there are still incredible stories that you 
           mention of FPO&apos;s in the kind of draft they were doing. Would kind of highlight 
           those kind of examples?</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Dr. KC</b> Good morning everyone and I congratulate ASSOCHAM for hosting such 
           an important webinar. Impact of Covid have been quite harsh on other sector 
           than agriculture sector. The first impact of Indian agriculture is destruction in 
           supply chain. There was an interstate and inter district transportation ban and 
           that really disturbed the supply chain and there was a delay in permit thought 
           agricultural commodities were permitted so there was a delay in transportation. 
           So these things affected the storage of agricultural commodities and also exports 
           are effected due to international ban. So overall scenario impact of Covid on 
           Indian agriculture. Even the other sectors are also badly effected the growth has 
           been cut down by 20% to 17%. Bu growth in agricultural sector fortunately has 
           come down by 1% or 2%. So this pandemic can be an opportunity. Here I want to 
           make one important point. You can leverage ICT for location of storage 
           structures like in Delhi they launched an app for location of vacant beds. So like 
           that we can develop an app for the storage sectors. Second important point to 
           make is we can leverage FPO and we can go for a smaller warehouses instead of 
           building a big warehouse and again farmers has to take it for a longer distance. 
           The FPO&apos;s can be strengthen by state govt. providing requisite assistance by 
           having a storage structures. Mentioning the third point to the minister bring 
           agriculture and line departments into marketing as well. For this policy change 
           is required we can have a marketing cell in each of the allied sectors because 
           these people are closely attached with the farmers can sensitize the farmers 
           about different marketing and various aspects and passage of the two ordinance 
           by GOI, role of the APMC is confined to that market area beyond that now this 
           APMC will have a new role by involving in the backward linkages by developing 
           warehouse, cold storages structures and storages more than anything Karnataka 
           is having an international institute CFTRI Karnataka govt. can take a advantage 
           of the institute some technologies can be borrow and transfer to the farmers as 
           well as the total supply chain. These are the few points, Karnataka is blessed 
           with all climatic zones so cluster based approach export for domestic marketing 
           will help a lot.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderate</b> - Minister Sir, would you like to say something?</p>
            <p style='text-align:justify;'>some warehouses into cold storage which is quite essential now a days after the 
           Covid, we learnt that cold storage is much essential because when the supply 
           chain demand was less farmers spoiled their vegetables and fruits instead of this</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'>they would have stored in cold storage in Karnataka we have only 32 cold 
           storages and out of which they couldn&apos;t able to store all the things and the 
           perishable goods were big loss to the Karnataka farming that time. That&apos;s why 
           we look forward for more cold storage that&apos;s what essential.</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderator</b> - Neeraj Ji, would you like to add something about the govt. initiative 
           and about the NABARD funding initiative in the agriculture post Covid?</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Neeraj Ji<b> - Good morning. Thanks for having me in the webinar for ASSOCHAM 
           organizing this timely webinar topical theme by giving the current Covid-19 
           situation and also I must thank our honorable minister BC Patil sir stated as 
           telling the FPO&apos;s should pitch in and the honorable PM giving the importance to 
           the rural India at the pandemic time by bringing out the three strategic 
           provisions through ordinance to convert totally into beans and this time will 
           come the FPO&apos;s chance in the rural India. As I was CEO and MD of NABARD two 
           years back and in Karnataka I drove funding to the FPO&apos;s. So out of 400 FPO&apos;s 
           250 FPO&apos;s has been promoted by NABARD and we lend to 40 FPO&apos;s and this year 
           also we going to lend 50 FPO&apos;s and also will promote 50-100 the govt. of India 
           has come up with FPO funds as we have funds we want to fund across India 
           10,000 FPO&apos;s and also I&apos;m sure the agriculture minister of Karnataka and of 
           NABARD is there and I&apos;m sure Karnataka will be the leading state in this mission 
           of FPO&apos;s promoting. FPO is key to everything from storage to marketing 
           aggregation to realization of value and the income FPO is the key. The intention 
           of GOI by doubling the farmer&apos;s income which Dalwai will speak in the next 
           panel. The next decade will be the FPO&apos;s decade GOI announced credit guarantee 
           fund and also the equity provided to the FPO&apos;s as heading the Karnataka 
           NABARD we will assure with the FPO&apos;s in NABARD in guidance and collaboration 
           with the Karnataka govt. under the leadership of honorable CM and honorable 
           agriculture minister we will be the leading in funding. For FPO&apos;s all kind of 
           facilities and credit facilities is for storage and pandemic processing localizing 
           centers the key localilse aggregation at the farmers level is the key. This kind of 
           FPO&apos;s will evolve federation of the FPO&apos;s. The GOI Is planning the cluster one 
           district one cluster and that is also been identified and also we will be having a 
           meeting with the district level managers of NABARD and tomorrow the GOI 
           Agriculture Ministry will have the meeting with the DGM&apos;s of across the country 
           and the state with the FPO&apos;s and again we will assure from NABARD to the agri 
           ministry and very shortly we will come out with the action plan going to be in 
           Karnataka also and this is regarding to FPO and also across the country this will 
           be a right movement. In pandemic times the farmers need all kind of helps 
           because the farmers will be the key drivers at this point of time agriculture 
           sector is the better place than other sectors because they drive the economy of 
           India also. Another key announcement by NABARD we are going to provide 
           storage facilities, processing facilities to saturate throughout India to assist and 
           to lend max 4% and will give the grant for the capacity building. We have 
           announced and the circular has come and very shortly and this we will do it in 
           first phase in the year we notice the very first phase and across Karnataka they 
           are ready along with the FPO&apos;s form packs will be there not only FPO&apos;s but packs</p>
            <p style='text-align:justify;'>are also there. The GOI has announced the agriculture infrastructure fund and 
           also announced 1 lakh fund for interest of 3% along will the bankers in 
           Karnataka the NABARD will give the grater boost. These are the schemes from 
           the FPO&apos;s and packs which we are going to convert into multi-services center 
           and this schemes will be translated very soon we have to come from paper to the 
           ground and as our honorable minister as he is travelling in the state with his 
           enthusiasm I am sure today is the starting point from today we are going to 
           translate all the policies into action and shortly we will do this in collaboration 
           with the GOK shortly. Thank you</p>
            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma S Nair</b> introduced the esteemed panelists and the moderator to session.</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Dr. Prbhod Halde</b> welcomed the panelists and shared the context about the session. He 
           stressed about the agriculture agro economy and food processing will gain lot of 
           importance and opportunity in domestic and international in export sector to work 
           towards &quot;Atma Nirbhar Bharat&quot;.</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Amit Vatsyayan</b> said the &quot;One Nation and One Market&quot; announced by the PM Modi. 
           He pointed out that there is a significance opportunity in domestic and international 
           markets by promoting through marketing bodies such as fruits and vegetables, food 
           processing and other commodities in Karnataka by harmonizing the quality of food 
           products and supply chain. The marketing bodies to identify the critical areas and 
           address them so that the farmers can grow more and produce more. There are there 
           points f deliberation by (i) commercially engage the aggregators through the dedicated 
           FPO (ii) The Advisory bodies to understand the market trends and indentify the domestic 
           and international markets to meet the production and requirement (iii) the Karnataka 
           State should come up with Agro Export policy and identify the key products and help 
           the farmers to export more and produce more</p>

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Dr. Ashok Dalwai, IAS</b> said to increase the farmer&apos;s income by creating value addition 
           and help to generate high returns. There are two ways to increase the farmers income 
           (i) by creating the value addition to the products by increasing the shelf by processing 
           the food produce (ii) by primary processing of produce and connecting the market and 
           create a safe environment. He stressed about strengthening the agriculture commodity 
           sector by helping them reduce the loss of produce and help them to earn more returns. 
           Also support the farmer by selling every product he grows. The farmer need to focus on 
           harvesting rather concentrating on fertilizers also produce the agri products as per the 
           domestic and international standards. The Government of India come up with 2 aspects 
           to support the farmer community (i) free agri market (ii) strengthen the agri market by 
           building the muscle of farmers. There is another initiative from Government of India 
           taken under agriculture marketing with APMC act and separate market place for 
           farmers to sell their produce, by creating more than one market place helps the farmers 
           to earn more. He suggested to create a trade zones apart from APMC market place to 
           meet the demand. The Government of India also announced to support more than 
           10,000 FPOs and strengthen them and allocated more than 30,000 crore to strengthen</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'>and restructure he cooperative societies to help the farmers. He closed the speech by 
           saying help farmer to how to produce and teach the technique to produce and connect 
           with APMC and other markets.</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Dr. K. C. Gummagolmath</b> said to create a harmony between the agri bodies and other 
           related players in the sector. The said that the current era is to meet the demand driven 
           market and plan the agri produce. He suggested there are few ways to improve the 
           produce (i) Contract farming (ii) linking the farmers to retail chain (iii) create online 
           platform to connect with consumers with selected commodities (iv) the State to look at 
           implementing the agri export policy (v) implement the best practices if agri business in 
           food processing sector in the State.</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Joanna Kane-Potaka</b> said that support the SMEs, as there are more than 6 lakh 
           SME&apos;s in the State. Post covid there will 30% of SME&apos;s will be shut if not supported. To 
           tackle the pandemic she suggested (i) right information about the produce and export 
           to market (ii) insight of covid hit region and support with goods movement (iii) create 
           more platform of trade fairs to improvise the farmer&apos;s income. She urged to farmer 
           connect with FPO&apos;s and SME&apos;s is important and this collaboration will create a platform 
           to felicitate the farmers. Also said, it is important to help the farmer with quality and 
           quantity to create consistent supply also provides value to the supply chain.</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Thangam Rammachandran</b> said that Karnataka State is the key producer of rose 
           onion. We at APEDA work closely with farmer help with export of produce. APEDA invites 
           other stakeholders join hands to connect from farm level to market. Also encouraged 
           the sector players to participate in the export promotion and buyer seller meet. The 
           cluster based export policy will help farmers to produce and meet the demand. There 
           are various pesticides available in the market; right set of pesticides pre harvest helps 
           the farmers to produce agri products that meet the global standards. She suggested to 
           train the farmers on right pesticides for pre harvest, best agriculture practices to yield 
           more, packaging and marketing. These elements will help farmer to participate in 
           domestic and global level buyer seller meet. APEDA also works closely with farmer help 
           with their financial needs to meet the demand and produce agri products.</p> 
           <p style='text-align:justify;'> Krishna Kumar Joshi concluded the session with closing remarks by picking key 
           points discussed during the session.</p> 

            <p style='text-align:justify;'>The session was attended by more than 400 participants from various industry, 
           academia and agri institutions.</p>