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Credit & Insurance: Key to Sustainable Agriculture
January 9, 2018
Organized by SMART AGRIPOST in partnership with Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, MoAFW, Govt. of India, ICRISAT, SatSure and United india Insurance co.Ltd.
Tentative Programme Schedule
| 9am to 10am | Registration | |
| 10:00- 10:45 am | Inauguration | – Shri Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Hon’ble Agriculture Minister, Government of Telangana*
– Shri Shobhana K Pattanayak, Secretary, Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Government of India
– Dr. Ashok Dalwai, CEO, National Rainfed Area Authority
–Shri C Partha Sarthi, APC & Principal Secretary, Government of Telangana,
– Dr. David Bergvinson, DG, ICRISAT
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| 10:45-11:00am | Tea | |
| 11am-12:15am | Session 1 | Challenges before Insurance & Financial Institutions in Implementing Risk Mitigation Mechanisms
Tentative Speakers: -Mr. T S Vijayan, Chairman, IRDA, Hyderabad*
– Kolli N Rao, Senior Advisor, International Reinsurance And Insurance Consultancy And Broking Services Pvt. Ltd.
– Dr. U.S. Saha, Chief General Manager, DEAR, NABARD*
– Mr. Pramod Aggarwal, Regional Programme Director, CCAFS*
– L. NARAYANA, Chief Manager, Crop Insurance Dept. Head Office, Chennai, United India Insurance Co. Ltd.
-ICICI Lombard*
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| 12:15-1.30pm | Session 2 | Government Initiatives for Improving Credit Flow & Risk Proofing of Agriculture
Tentative Speakers:
-Dr Ashish Bhutani, Joint Secretary, MoA&FW, (Credit & Insurance)
– Smt. Puja Singhal, Secretary (Agriculture), Government of Jharkhand
-Government of Odisha*
– Shri B. Rajshekhar, Pr. Secretary (Agriculture), Govt. of Andhra Pradesh*
– Sh. Bijay Kumar, Pr. Secretary (Agri.), Government of Maharashtra*
– Shri. S Dwivedi, Chief Executive Officer, General Manager, NABKISAN Finance Limited (NKFL)
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| 1.30pm to 2.30pm | Lunch | |
| 02:30 pm to 4pm | Session 3 | Technology & Innovations
(Use of Remote Sensing & GIS for Decision Making)
Tentative Speakers: -Dr. David Bergvinson, DG, ICRISAT
-Mr. Prateep Basu, COO, SatSure
-Mr. Mangesh Niranjan Patankar, Senior Underwriter Agriculture, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd*
-Mr. Anil Bansal, MD, Microsoft India*
– Mr. Shibendu Ray, Director, Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre*
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| 4:00 to 4:45pm | Valedictory Session | –Shri C Partha Sarthi, APC & Principal Secretary, Government of Telangana, Telangana* -Dr Ashish Bhutani, Joint Secretary, MoA&FW, (Credit & Insurance)
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| 4.45pm to 5pm | Tea |
(*) To be confirmed
Objective of the Conference:
- Deliberating on the present status insurance coverage to farmers in India
- Recognizing & addressing gaps both at policy & implementation levels
- Highlighting Successful Case Studies
- Initiatives taken by startups and technology companies
- Possibilities of Replicating the models in different States
- The outcomes of the conference will be documented and shared among policy makers, banking and insurance institutions and all other stakeholders
- Way forward
Participants:
- Central & State Government Departments & Institute
- Private Enterprises
- Insurance Companies
- Cooperatives
- Banking Institutes
- Weather Forecasting Companies
- Farmer Producer Companies
Interested companies and individuals may contact Ms Anand Chittrupa- 011-64555667, 49052556 for participation, exhibition and advertisement. Or please write to us at smartagripost@gmail.com, eventsmartagripost@gmail.com or visit : www.smartagripost.com