The department of Bio-sciences of Sri Krishna Arts and Science College (SKASC), Kuniamuthur, Coimbatore conducted 9th National Conference on Bio-revolution - A promising Strategy – NCBPS’17 at the Campus. About 200 participants from academic institutions, research and industry attended the conference. The conference aimed to broaden the debate on biotechnology beyond the narrow confines of the biosafety question and foster dialogue between researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and practitioners.
Professor Dr. K. Singaravadivel, Independent Director, Tamilnadu Food Grains Marketing Yard, Madurai and former Director, IICPT, Tanjore was the Chief Guest and said that promotion of sustainable agriculture is the need of the hour. We must promote agriculture in always and to all climates. He also said that the Convention on Biological Diversity should be concerned with biodiversity conservation, biospheric sustainability and wealth sharing rather than trade battles over genetically modified crops, and said the 1990s "hype" regarding genetic modification and transgenics has not understood that genetically modified crops are biologically similar to any other kind of crop.
He lamented not more was being done to promote sustainable agriculture. In his concluding remarks, he stressed the need for better communication, institutional and societal modalities, increased consultation between various interested groups, and social institutions to deal with the pace of scientific advances.
Professor Dr.N.Senthil Kumar, Head, Dept of Biotechnology, Mizoram university, offered his keynote address and said that some concrete proposals for conference participants to consider, including, ensuring donor support to the private sector-university nexus in biotechnology research, expanding private multinational local centers of scientific excellence to the tropics, convening more roundtables on biotechnology between political and business leaders; providing incentives to expatriate developing country scientists to pursue biotechnology-related work in their own countries, convening more roundtables on biotechnology between political and business leaders; and creating a task force on biotechnology as an outcome of this conference.
The conference explored a diverse range of issues technological, environmental, ethical, economic, and social specifically regarding the needs of small farmers in developing countries.
P.Babaganakumar, Principal and Dr.S.F.Maleeka Begum, Head, dept of Biotechnology, Professors and many others attended the conference.
Professor Dr. K. Singaravadivel, Independent Director, Tamilnadu Food Grains Marketing Yard, Madurai and former Director, IICPT, Tanjore was the Chief Guest and said that promotion of sustainable agriculture is the need of the hour. We must promote agriculture in always and to all climates. He also said that the Convention on Biological Diversity should be concerned with biodiversity conservation, biospheric sustainability and wealth sharing rather than trade battles over genetically modified crops, and said the 1990s "hype" regarding genetic modification and transgenics has not understood that genetically modified crops are biologically similar to any other kind of crop.
He lamented not more was being done to promote sustainable agriculture. In his concluding remarks, he stressed the need for better communication, institutional and societal modalities, increased consultation between various interested groups, and social institutions to deal with the pace of scientific advances.
Professor Dr.N.Senthil Kumar, Head, Dept of Biotechnology, Mizoram university, offered his keynote address and said that some concrete proposals for conference participants to consider, including, ensuring donor support to the private sector-university nexus in biotechnology research, expanding private multinational local centers of scientific excellence to the tropics, convening more roundtables on biotechnology between political and business leaders; providing incentives to expatriate developing country scientists to pursue biotechnology-related work in their own countries, convening more roundtables on biotechnology between political and business leaders; and creating a task force on biotechnology as an outcome of this conference.
The conference explored a diverse range of issues technological, environmental, ethical, economic, and social specifically regarding the needs of small farmers in developing countries.
P.Babaganakumar, Principal and Dr.S.F.Maleeka Begum, Head, dept of Biotechnology, Professors and many others attended the conference.