Dear Dr. Sharif and all distinguished colleagues,
I just wanted to forward this announcement to those of you that may be interested. Our dearest guru Professor Gajendra Singh, ASABE Fellow and numerous award winner, will talk about
“Agricultural Mechanization in Asia: Trends, Patterns and Prospects.” As many of you know that Professor Singh is widely known as the thought leader of agricultural mechanization in Asia, America and many other countries. Currently, Professor
Singh is the Chair of the Science Committee of the Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium (ASMC), a USAID Funded consortium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign within the umbrella of the Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab (SIIL) being
led by the Kansas State University. This seminar is sponsored by the ASMC, Sustainable Intensification Innovation Laboratory (SIIL), and the ACES Office of International Programs (OIP) at the University of Illinois, and will be broadcasted through Zoom.
Date and time: Friday April 16 at 12-1 PM Central Standard Time (Chicago time)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87349628889?pwd=TDVsUkxkZkh6bW55c04rR3Uvb2cvUT09
Meeting ID: 873 4962 8889
Password: 200407
Thank you and best regards,
Prasanta
Prasanta K. Kalita, Ph.D., Fellow ASABE, ISAE
Director, Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium
Presidential Fellow, University of Illinois System
Professor & Leader, Soil & Water Resources Engineering
Distinguished Teacher Scholar
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Phone: 217-333-0945, Fax: 217-244-0323
Email: pka...@illinois.edu
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You are invited to attend:
ABE I4 Seminar
Friday, April 16, 2021
Presented by: Professor Gajendra Singh, Chair, Science Committee of the Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Agricultural Mechanization in Asia: Trends, Patterns and Prospects"
12 - 1 p.m. (Central Standard Time)
Join us on Zoom:
https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87349628889?pwd=TDVsUkxkZkh6bW55c04rR3Uvb2cvUT09
Meeting ID: 873 4962 8889
Password: 200407
The Asian region has made great progress over the past six decades in transforming the farm power situation from
over 90% from animal sources in the 1960s to over 60% from mechanical sources now. Four main types of mechanical power sources are popular: i) 2Wheel-Single Axle tractors for wet tillage, transportation, water pumping and threshing; ii) 4Wheel-Two Axle tractors
for dry tillage, transportation, planting and seeding, inter-culture, spraying, harvesting and threshing; iii) Electrical motors and Diesel engines for irrigation pump sets and many postharvest processing operations; and iv) Self-propelled machines like combine
harvesters and trans-planters. Average farm holding size is about 1 ha. More than 85% of 500 million small farm holdings in the world below 2 ha are in Asia. Increased utilization of machines available with farmers through custom hiring to neighbor farmers
and or through larger operational holdings makes ownership of machines economic and profitable.
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Professor Singh was born in a farm family at village Bhogpur, North India. His education includes BS at G B Pant
University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, MS at Rutgers University, PhD at University of California, Davis, USA. He served as Professor, Department Head and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Deputy
Director General (Engineering), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Govt. Of India, Vice-Chancellor- Doon University, India. Among numerous awards, he received ASABE Kishida International Award, ASABE Massey Ferguson Educational Award, Gold Medal of Indian
Soc. of Agri. Engineers, Eminent Engineer Award of the Institution of Engineers (India), Founding President of Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering, Board of Trustees of the ASABE, Member of Club of Bologna and President of the Indian Society of
Agricultural Engineers. Professor Singh is a Fellow of the ASABE; National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (India); International Commission of Agricultural Engineering; Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers; Institution of Engineers (India), and Soil
Conservation Society of India.
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