Cornell Sathguru Foundation for Development
Towards Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development
CSFD aims to empower farmers through capacity building. Many of the programs at CSFD are designed to improve the capacities of the farmers, address grass-root problems and enhance their knowledge base of various high end technologies to solve the modern day problems in agriculture and food security. CSFD undertakes International & National training, Capacity Building workshops
Gene Editing & the Brave new World: In November 2018, a Chinese Scientist Hi Jiankul shocked.the.world.with his claim of producing the first babies genetically edited with CRISPR technology. CRISPR is a tool that helps scientists suppress specific genes that express in plants, animals.and humans and delete undesirable traits. The Chinese expt has raised the hackles
CSFD strongly believes accentuating social development using latest high-end technology. In the current projets that is being undertaken, CSFD is adopting technologies like satellite imagery, IOT, digitalizing of farmers’ database etc., to enable data driven decision making possible among the rural farming communities. The target farmers will be introduced to an ICT application called as
Cornell Sathguru Foundation for Development (CSFD) supported by Aurobindo Pharma Foundation and intechnical partnership with Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University (PJTSAU) is implementing aproject in the villages of Paniyal and Badampet in Hathnoora Mandal of Sangareddy district Telangana state. Toactualize the objective we have targeted to train the farmers of Panyal and Badampet for
CSFD’s focuses on sustainable development and one of the important areas which needs an urgent attention is Food and nutrition security. Distribution of Kitchen garden input kits progam at Paniyal and Badampet villages Through CSFD’s project that is being implemented in the areas of Paniyal and Badampet Villages, Hathnoora Mandal, Sangareddy, Telanganafood and
Rajendranagar: The MoU was signed between PJTSAU (Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University) and Cornell Sathguru Foundation for Development (CSFD) on Thursday. The MoU was executed by Hemalatha on behalf of Foundation and by the registrar of PJTSAU Dr S Sudheerkumar in the presence of Vice-Chancellor Dr V Praveen Rao. Chairman of CSFD Vijay Raghavan
Janet McCue Secretary Janet McCue is a retired Associate University Librarian for Teaching, Research, Outreach, and Learning Services at Cornell University. Early in her career, McCue headed a technical services unit and hired the first Metadata Librarian at Cornell. More recently, she has nurtured a diverse set of initiatives—from data-driven science to VIVO,
Hemalatha Director Hemalatha is one of the founder directors of Sathguru Management Consultants. She is a Commerce graduate and holds a postgraduate certification Systems from NCC, UK. She is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants of India and has experience in handling Initial Public Offers (IPO) under the erstwhile Capital Markets
Kannan Ragunathan Secretary Kannan Ragunathan is one of the director of Sathguru Management Consultants and heads the Information Technology practice of Sathguru. Ragunathan is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, a Fellow Management Consultant and a systems specialist. He is an eminent expert in application of information technology solutions in the agriculture and food sector
K. Vijayaraghavan Vice Chairman K. Vijayaraghavan (Vijay), the chairman of Sathguru Management Consultants established the firm to integrate proficiencies in science and management to help create and nurture innovative enterprises, by adopting next generation technologies for product development and providing strategic ideas in reaching markets and delivery systems for different segments. He takes