ICRISAT IMOD. AT Magazine encourages India’s leaders
NEW DELHI - It reads: Agriculture Leadership Awards . With the eye of a teacher and a journalist, I see that India’s Agriculture Today Magazine online, a monthly, is in a class by itself in Asia. I would call it The National Encourager. I’m talking of editorial intent, not content. I’m based in Manila and when I think of our own aggie magazines in the Philippines published online or in print, that doesn’t encourage me. I see that the Agriculture Today Group is now in its 3rd year of sponsorship of the Agriculture Leadership Awards that it itself initiated and created in 2008. The Awards coincide with the annual Indian Agriculture Leadership Summit , now one of India’s most prestigious events; EcoAgriculture says (ecoagriculture.org) the Summit is “ who’s who of India’s agriculture , agribusiness, polity, industry, government, media, development and intellectual classes coming together on a common platform to share their (views) on global issues, India’s farm sector a