The University of Agricultural Sciences-Bengaluru will soon get German expertise for research and development in food processing and farm mechanisation. The State of Bavaria in Germany has evinced interest in having research collaboration with the university in these key areas.
A high-level Bavarian delegation, led by Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing Helmut Brunner, visited the university recently and proposed to have collaboration with UAS-B.
The university’s Dean of post-graduate studies K.N. Ganeshaiah, who coordinated with the Bavarian delegation, told The Hindu that the team wanted to tie-up with the university on food processing, farm mechanisation and bio-fuel. While the UAS-B would be getting technologies on food processing and farm mechanisation from Bavaria, which has made rapid strides in these areas, it would help Bavaria adopt its cooperative model of bio-fuel development that works on the lines of milk cooperatives with focus on farmers’ welfare.
Of course, both the university and Bavaria would work together in the above three areas, he said.
Specific areas
The specific areas for research collaboration, among the above three issues, would be chalked out by expert teams to be formed by both the university and Bavaria. Based on the suggestion by these two teams, both the entities would enter into an agreement in the coming days, he said.
The university has indicated to the Bavarian delegates, which comprised bureaucrats and experts in the areas of food processing and farm mechanisation, that it was keen on getting farm mechanisation models that suit specific requirements of State farmers such as small landholdings and heterogeneous cropping patterns, he said.
The proposed collaboration would also involve exchange of students and faculty, he noted.
A delegation from Bavaria has evinced interest in having research collaboration with the varsity on food processing, farm mechanisation and bio-fuel
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