‘Idea Sangama’ project launched in Bidar

April 12, 2015 01:57 pm | Updated 01:57 pm IST - Bidar

The Bidar district administration launched “Idea Sangama”, a project to crowd-source technical solutions to problems faced by farmers and others on Sunday.

Students of veterinary college, horticulture college, engineering colleges and first grade colleges participated. Each student was asked to come up with at least one common problem and suggest solutions.

P.C. Jaffer, Deputy Commissioner, said college students who come up with innovative ideas to address every day problems will be supported.

Farmers suffer from various problems like scarcity of custom made farm equipment, damage to appliances due to low quality power supply, wastage of agriculture and horticulture products due to lack of processing facilities and cold chain storage. But the good news is that most of these can be solved by timely application of simple ideas, he said. If you can come up with simple, workable projects, the district administration will support you, he said. The government will facilitate the development of the technology by logistics support and mentoring by professionals.

He hoped that some of the students could turn entrepreneurs if their ideas had potential for scaling up and commercialisation.

Dr. Khaja. M., Secretary of Rotary Club of Bidar, Subrahmanya Prabhu, Director of Sharada RUDSETI and others were present.

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