“Inspiring agricultural innovation through cutting edge ideas of young scientists”
A screening and evaluation meeting was conducted at ICAR RCER Patna on June 03 2024 at 10:00 AM to select the Young Scientist Innovation Project(YSIP) under the Institute Corpus Fund for the Year 2024-25. The meeting started under the chairmanship of Dr. Arunava Pattanayak, former director of ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (IIAB), Ranchi, and ICAR- Vivekanand Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan (ICAR-VPKAS), Almora and Dr. Anup Das, Director, ICAR RCER, Patna. Dr. Bikash Das, Director, ICAR – National Research Centre on Litchi, Dr. D.B. Singh, Principal Scientist, ICAR-ATARI Patna, Dr. Abhay Kumar (Principal Scientist Agri. Statistics, ICAR RCER Patna) and. Dr. A. Dey (Principal Scientist, Animal Nutrition, ICAR RCER Patna) acted as a member of the screening committee. In this meeting, young scientists of the ICAR-RCER Patna came out with projects in frontier and challenging areas of agriculture like carbon farming, biofortification, sensor-based irrigation, agricultural metagenomics, conservation agriculture, etc., and presented their innovative ideas before the screening committee. The screening committee thoroughly evaluated the project of individual scientists and provided their valuable feedback and suggestions to enhance the quality of the project proposal. Dr Pattanayak along with the other committee members appreciated the effort of young scientists and suggested some of the projects to merge and make a mega project for external funding. Dr. Pattanayak appreciated the initiative of ICAR RCER Patna for commencing the Young Scientist Innovation Project (YSIP) scheme which will benefit the young scientists of the institute to come up with cutting-edge ideas in agriculture besides making their ideas refined for external funding. In the afternoon Dr. Pattanayak interacted with Scientists at the institute and visited experimental fields and laboratories. Dr. Pattanayak also interacted with IARI-Hub Patna students and suggested that they must work hard to satisfy the esteem needs of Indian agriculture besides inculcating a culture of innovation.