IIM Ahmedabad to Hold Agri-Business B-school Summit 'Amaethon 2007'

IIM Ahmedabad to Hold Agri-Business B-school Summit 'Amaethon 2007'

Agriculture has been the mainstay of the Indian economy for generations, giving employment to far more people than any other sector. It embodies the ruggedness and indefatigability of the Indian spirit.

IIM Ahmedabad celebrates this spirit through Amaethon 2007, a meeting-place for the brightest and most experienced people in the field and young managers who are about to take their first steps in it.

Amaethon 2007 - IIM-A's Annual Agri-Business Summit - is to be held on 19th, 20th and 21st of January, continuing with the tradition that began three years ago. Amaethon has come a long way since then and this year's Amaethon is expected to be a mega affair.

Amaethon 2007 will see at least 500 participants from 50 B-schools and 33 agri-business management colleges across India making best use of an opportunity to interact with the most brilliant minds in the agri-business sector and compete for over Rs. 6 lakhs' worth of prize money.

Amaethon has grown over the years in terms of scale, contests and speakers. This year Amaethon is offering Business Plan Contests, Commodity Trading Games, Management Games, Paper Presentations, Case Analysis, Panel Discussions, Movie Reviews, and many other events over the three days.

The theme for this year's Amaethon is "The Awaited Dawn" - capturing the strong feeling that India's agriculture and development sector needs a new beginning to match India's commendable growth in corporate and industrial sector. Various events at Amaethon 2007 will try to find out ways to bring about this much-awaited dawn.

The whole amalgamation of events under Amaethon is divided into four main sessions: -

The Entrepreneurship Session

The Agri-Business Session

The Development Session, and

Informals

All these sessions would aim at finding ways to modernize the agribusiness in India through possible policy changes, government initiatives, or through modern technology and practices like promotion of commodity trading. Attempts would be made to analyze various aspects of issues like agriculture productivity, micro-credit, managing risks in agriculture and rural infrastructure, and look for means to better them.

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Contributed by -
Anannya Saikia,
Media Cell - Amaethon 2007,
IIM Ahmedabad.

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