Anand (Gujarat) [India], February 17 (ANI/NewsVoir): NDDB Mrida Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary company of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) signed an agreement with Sistema.bio, India's leading biogas company, to work with smallholder dairy farmers and provide sustainable solutions in waste-to-energy and open avenues of generating additional income for farmers. Meenesh Shah, Chairman, NDDB & NDDB Mrida Ltd. and Piyush Sohani, MD, Sistema.bio India graced the occasion. NDDB Mrida Ltd. and Sistema.bio will jointly work with dairy cooperatives, dairy federations, milk producer organisations and other farmer-centric institutions to install modern flexi biogas plants for small and medium dairy farmers of India and disseminate knowledge about the same and about manure management and bioslurry applications as well. This collaborative effort will promote biogas plants and create a value chain that will improve the livelihoods of dairy farmers and at the same time contribute towa
Anand (Gujarat) [India], November 30 (ANI/NewsVoir): Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) - a premier management institute established by Dr Verghese Kurien, the Father of the White Revolution in India - celebrated Dr Kurien's 101st birth anniversary on 26 November 2022 by organizing the first-ever IRMA Alumni CEO Conclave. The Conclave was organized in association with the IRMA Alumni Association (IAA). The Conclave brought together some of the finest alumni leaders IRMA has produced for high-quality discussions, networking amongst alumni and motivating the current batch of students to hold the ideals of Dr Kurien and IRMA high. Dr Umakant Dash, Director, IRMA, welcomed all present to their alma mater saying that the event not only celebrated IRMA but its visionary founder, Dr Kurien, who almost 50 years ago, envisaged an institute which would impart top-tier management education while serving the underserved. IRMA alumni, he added, were the ambassadors of not the institute
Anand (Gujarat) [India], October 17 (ANI/PNN): Dr Niket Patel, medical director of the renowned Akanksha hospital and research institute in Anand, Gujarat, received the award for best IVF hospital from former Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel. Dr Patel, a gynaecologist and IVF specialist, is one of the country's youngest Endoscopic Surgeons. Dr Niket Patel, the son of highly acclaimed IVF expert Dr Nayana Patel founder of Akanksha infertility facility known as the "Baby Factory" of India, which has produced over 25,000 IVF babies specialises in sophisticated laparoscopic operations and is one of the country's youngest to do so. Endoscopic procedures, often known as keyhole surgeries, can identify and treat most gynaecological abnormalities such as fibroids, endometriosis, PCOS, ovarian cysts, and so on. Ovarian tissue activation was first performed by Dr Niket Patel in India. Dr Patel was first exposed to this method in Copenhagen, Denmark, where it immediatel