A three-day conference on ‘Agribusiness management: Opportunities and challenges’ will be conducted in Mangalore from October 9-11.

The event is being organised by the Department of Business Administration of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management in Mangalore.

Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Lokesh, member of the organising committee, said the main aim is to explore various opportunities for agribusiness and identify challenges.

The conference will focus on issues such as retaining youth in agriculture and creating employment through agri-business activities. It will also discuss topics such as agricultural marketing and supply chain management, he said.

Policy makers, financial institutions, non-governmental organisations, experts, academicians and researchers will participate in the conference.

He said that 125 delegates from different parts of the country and international participants will participate in this event.

G Parameshwara, President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, will inaugurate the conference and P Chandrashekara, Coordinator of Agriclinics and Agribusiness Centres Cell of the Hyderabad-based National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, will deliver the keynote address, he said.

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