Wednesday, July 29, 2009

YPARD India blog

YPARD: Young Professionals platform for Agricultural Research and Development, is a three year old knowledge network that aims to connect Young Professionals of ARD. The objectives of YPARD are:
  1. facilitate exchange of information and knowledge among young professionals across disciplines, professions, age and regions
  2. broadens opportunities for YPs to contribute to strategic ARD policy debates
  3. promotes agriculture among young people
  4. facilitates access to resources and capacity building opportunities
YPARD has expanded to 115 countries with over 1500 members from Academic and Research Institutions, Govt. and Non-Govt. Organizations, Corporate sector and Entrepreneurs. YPARD India has been set up with a full functioning office at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamilnadu.

This blog was suggested as a platform through which YPARD India members could develop a conuing communication process. It is visualized that the blog would also become a showcase of YPARD India members thoughts, success and learning.

The members of YPARD India met last week end in Jaipur rajasthan for a review meeting where it was felt essential to create an online platform for developing continuous and coherent communication, exchange of ideas and deliberation on plan of actions in the near and far future.