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| India to host the 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics in New Delhi |
India to host the 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics in New Delhi
The 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS-VIII) will be organized by the Ministry of Agriculture in New Delhi from 18th to 21st November 2019.
The conference will be inaugurated by the Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar and Chief Guest will be Bill Gates.
The conference will be organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, ISI-CAS, FAO, the USDA, ADB, World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Eurostat, AfDB and various other organizations.
The theme of this year’s ICAS is ‘Statistics for Transformation of Agriculture to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’.
The Conference will see participation of more than 600 delegates of which 200 delegates will be from 108 countries. There will be 5 plenary sessions and 44 technical sessions.
The conference is conducted every three years based on overarching need for agricultural data worldwide and the last conference was held in Rome in 2016. The agenda for this conference covers domains of food and agricultural statistics, related methodologies, technologies and processes.
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