June 16th, 2023Indian science exchange thriving at Horsham

Agriculture Victoria’s Horsham SmartFarm is hosting a third set of Indian researchers as part of a long-running higher education agri-science exchange program.

Drs Arun Kumar Attkan, Ganesh Upadhyay and Rajesh Kumar Arya from the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU) in Hisar, north-western India, are currently here collaborating on a raft of bilaterally beneficial projects.

Agriculture Victoria, Plant Phenomics Research Leader, DrSurya Kant is delighted to be supervising the latest recipients from Haryana University.

‘This is a wonderful opportunity for Agriculture Victoria to collaborate with the largest agricultural university in India and foster ongoing research ties while exposing their researchers to our cutting- edge technology and infrastructure.

‘Haryana has a similar climate to the Wimmera so the knowledge that our organisations are sharing on crop research and development is completely transposable.’

‘It’s great to welcome three of their talented academic scientists to work with our research teams on exciting projects in speed breeding, digital phenotyping, image sensing and crop production automation,’ said Dr Kant.