Agriculture & Horticulture

Emmanuel has done his study in Biomedical instrumentation from Université de Luminy - Marseille. At present, he is working as the Development Director for promoting agribusiness in Semtech. The works of Emmanuel are basically concerned with smart and sustainable agriculture.

Emmanuel has a keen interest in the agribusiness sector. He has been working continuously to develop and enhance techniques for production of agriculture products.

K. Given is the elected Vice President of Indiana Urban Pollination Project and also for Heartland Honey Bee Breeders Cooperative. He received the award for Outstanding Service in the Department of Entomology, Perdue University, in 2016 and has 9 published research works.

Honeybee research, Instrumental insemination, bee breeding and honeybee biology are the common areas in which Given does his research.

Mr. Luambo Thomas Munzhedzi is trained Agro dealer, Agro marketing Specialist, Agribusiness expert, an entrepreneur and has been in the Agriculture industry for more than 10 years with experience ranging from veterinary, animal feed, agro chemicals and mostly Fertilizer under the development program of Africa fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnerships, development co-ordinator in East Southern Africa Fertilizer Platform 2015 Zambia-Lusaka, CRU Agribusiness 2016-Tanzania-Argus -2017(Mozambique) and currently presenting “ From Agro dealer to Farm gate Model 2018 CRU and Argus Conferences as Speaker expert. He is also Chairperson of Agro dealers Association of South Africa, Secretary Agri-ways Rural development in Africa.

Agribusiness, Agro-marketing, Fertilizers, Animal feed and Agrochemicals.

Dr. Udikeri has done his Bachelors from the University of Agricultural Sciences. He has pursued his masters and Doctorate, with a Gold Medal for the first rank, in Agril. Entomology from the same university and is now an honored Professor of Entomology in the same. Dr. Udikeri is a fellow to the Cotton Research and Development Association and to the Commonwealth Academic. He has been honored as the Best visiting scientist to CRI, Gorgan, Iran and also as a moderator at World Cotton Research Conference-4. He has also been the chairman for the 6th conference of the series. He is currently a part of 9 associations at a national level.

Dr. Udikeri is interested in doing his research in Agricultural Entomology, specifically Cotton Entomology.

Dr. J. K. Ladha has devoted more than 35 years to aspects of sustainable management of agriculture and natural resources for increasing food security and environmental quality in developing countries. Dr. Ladha is recognized internationally as an authority on sustainable agriculture for increasing food security and environmental quality. He served at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) from 1980 to 2017 and was a “Frosty” Hill Fellow at Cornell University (July 07–June 08) and an adjunct senior scientist at the columbia Univeristy until 2016. Currently, he is an Affliate Scientist in the University of California-Davis. Dr Ladha has published widely on issues related to sustainable and conservation agriculture.

Crop Science, Soil Science, Agronomy, Plant Nutrition, Rice and wheat research

Oleksandr is the founder of SofTom agro GmbH and Agri Saaten GmbH, Germany and works there to promote agriculture on a commercial scale.

Oleksandr has a deep interest in organic as well as sustainable agriculture practices and has set up associations which promote better practices towards sustainable farming.

Senior scientist, agronomist at Inra (National Institute for Agricultural Research) Ecodevelopment Unit in Avignon, France. His main research line is about transitions towards ecologically-based agricultures, focussing on diversified or complex systems. He is currently involved in national, european and transnational research programmes or projects.

organic food and farming, agroecology, sustainable cropping and animal feeding systems, horticulture