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Training Program on Operationalization and Usage of Agri-DIKSHA Web Education Channel

Dr. Maxwell Mkondiwa — Associate Scientist – Spatial Economist, CIMMYT , New Delhi was invited at ICAR-IASRI to deliver the talk on “Towards Personalized Agro-Advisories: Causal Machine Learning and Spatial Bayesian Modelling Insights from the Landscape Diagnostic Survey (LDS)” on 19 May 2023.

The 4th Indian Workshop on Applied Deep Learning(IWADL), hosted at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani K K Birla Goa campus from June 12-16, 2023, was organized jointly by BITS Pilani, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi and ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (ICAR-IASRI) in blended learning format. Professor Phalguni Gupta, Vice Chancellor, GLA University; Dr. Rajender Parsad Director ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi; Dr. Navneet Goyal, Head, Computer Science Engineering Department, BITS Pilani; Dr. Aditya Nigam, Head, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Mandi; Dr. Kamlesh Tiwari, BITS Pilani and Convenor of IWADL 2023 and Dr. Sudeep Marwaha, PI NAHEP Component 2, ICAR-IASRI expressed their views about the importance of IWADL worhshop and National Agricultural Research and Education Sysyem-Blended Learning Platform (NARES BLP) during the inagural session. NARES-BLP enabled the researchers, experts, and enthusiasts in the field of deep learning to explore and learn the subject in a cohesive environment. Prominent researchers from various esteemed institutions and companies, including IIT Mandi, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, BITS Pilani, Harman DTS, Fujitsu, and Sahaj AI ffocuses on the application of deep learning architectures such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Autoencoders, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Transformers, Diffusion models, and more. These architectures have shown great potential in addressing a wide range of problems in diverse domains such as agriculture, healthcare, finance, transportation, education, manufacturing, and entertainment. The organization of IWADL’23 coupled with the ICAR Blended Learning Platform (BLP) platform brought 90+ online and 100+ physical participants together. Following are some of the highlights of the workshop: Total of 13 Nos of Trainer and 229 Nos of Learner Registered on the Main tenant of ICAR BLP ( https://icarblp.krishimegh.in) For five days, 90+ Participants attended virtual/online classes of the IWADL workshop 2023 using the ICAR BLP platform. Three Assessments ( Quiz 1 , 2 and 3) were successfully conducted over the ICAR BLP platform. 190+ Participants successfully attempted assessment over the ICAR BLP platform. Customisation Email sent for all users for registration purposes. Throughout the workshop, optimal and flawless video-conferencing performance was observed. IWADL workshop Feedback taken via ICAR BLP Platform. Learners expressed their satisfaction on the topics covered and practical exercises given to understand the actual applications of deep learning. Dr. Suman Kundu, Director BITS Pilani K K Birka Campus was the chief guest during the valedictory session. He shared his happiness to be associated as host institution for the workshop and emphasized greater collaboration among the participating institutions.

ICAR-IASRI showcased the research and application of ICT in the Agriculture, viz. Kisan Sarathi- An ICT based Agriculture Extension Platform, AI DISC- AI enabled Plant Disease Identification System etc., at the India Mobile Congress, 27-29 October 2023, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi under the banner of Indian council of Agricultural Research and Department of Agriculture Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

One-Day Virtual Workshop on Farmer FIRST Programme (FFP Portal and Mobile App) has been organized on January 12, 2023 at ICAR-IASRI. More than 130 participants have attended the workshop. The demonstrations were made on FFP Portal and Mobile App by Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Dr. Anshu Bharadwaj and Dr. Soumen Pal from ICAR-IASRI. Dr. V.P. Chahal, ADG (Agri Extn.) graced the event. He appreciated the efforts made by ICAR-IASRI FFP team and appealed all FFP Centres to upload and update timely information in the portal for its enrichment. Dr. Rajender Parsad, Director, ICAR-IASRI joined the programme and provided his valuable suggestions for betterment of the portal as well as the mobile app. Dr. S.R.K. Singh, Director, ICAR-ATRAI, Jabalpur and Dr. P. P. Rohilla, Nodal Officer FFP, ICAR-ATARI, Jodhpur also emphasized on timely information uploading in the portal for the benefits of stakeholders.

ICAR-IASRI organized an Online Workshop on Statistical Methods of Data Integration in Agricultural Sciences on November 07, 2023. Chair: Professor Indranil Mukhopadhyay, Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Topics covered and Eminent Speakers: 1. Data Integration Techniques in Agricultural Sciences: Professor Mamunur Rashid, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePauw University, USA 2. Selective introduction to Multi-omics Integrative Analysis: Professor George Tseng, Vice Chair (Research), Departments of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA 3. An Introduction to Multiple Testing: Professor Gaurangadeb Chattopadhyay, Head, Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, India Conveners: Dr Rajender Parsad and Dr Ajit Participants: 130+

ICAR-IASRI observing the Vigilance Awareness Week (30 October-5th November 2023). A Webinar was organised jointly with ICAR-NIMR, Hyderabad. Mr. Somnath, Under Secretary (Vigilance), ICAR delivered the talk on the topic “CCS (CCA) Rules 1965”

Campus wide cleaning activity was organized on 31.10.23 under the aegis of Swachhata Special Campaign 3.0. A valedictory function was also organized. Dr Bimlesh Mann, ADG (EP&HS) was the Chief Guest. She planted a sapling in IASRI Campus and addressed the staff on the occasion. Dr Rajender Parsad, Director, Dr Monendra Grover, Chairman, Institute Swachhata Committee and Sh. Sanjay Bokolia, Head of Office, also addressed the staff. The event ended with a vote of thanks by Dr Sukanta Dash, Secretary, Institute Swachhata Committee.

10 days online training programme “Omics Data Analysis: Genome to Proteome” was successfully organized during October 09-18, 2023, under the project ICAR-Consortium Research Platform on Genomics, funded by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. The valedictory function of the training programme was held under the Chairmanship of Dr. Rajender Parsad (Director, ICAR-IASRI) in the presence of Dr. Vindhya Mohindra (PI, Consortium Research Platform on Genomics). Dr. Girish Kumar Jha (Head, Division of Agricultural Bioinformatics) was the Course Director and, Dr. Sudhir Srivastava and Dr. Sneha Murmu were the Course Coordinators of the training programme. The word of thanks was given by Dr. Anu Sharma, PI of the project at ICAR-IASRI. There were 50 participants from various SAUs and ICAR institutes covering 9 states of the country.

Under the Swachhta Special Campaign a debate competition was organized at Dr Daroga Singh Auditorium on 12.10.23. The topic of the debate was “Time spent on Swachhta mission is time well spent". Dr Achal Lama was the host and Dr A K Paul and Dr Parwin Arya were the judges.

Institute celebrated 77th Independence Day (76 Years of Independence) on August 15, 2023. Dr. Rajender Parsad, Director, ICAR-IASRI hoisted the flag in the Institute Campus. A cultural programme was organized by the students, staff members and children of staff members on the occasion. The staff and students of the Institute also took Panch Pran Pledge on the Day.

Under the Swachhta Special Campaign a debate competition was organized at Dr Daroga Singh Auditorium on 12.10.23. The topic of the debate was “Time spent on Swachhta mission is time well spent". Dr Achal Lama was the host and Dr A K Paul and Dr Parwin Arya were the judges.