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Cornell varsity chooses Hyderabad for agribusiness programme

Cornell University proposes to start an agribusiness management master and professional studies programme, for the first time outside that country, through distance learning and onsite instructions by using the world-class facilities available in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh.

This was stated by a delegation from the university, which called on Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu at the secretariat in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

The team comprised W Ronnie Coffman, H Dean Sutphin and K V Raman and accompanied by M Shawki, director of the International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics or ICRISAT, and management consultants K Vijayaraghavan and Annam Dilip Kumar.

The team said the programme acquires significance in the light of the emerging global economy and mushrooming of agri-business enterprises in the country. It would provide for exchange of faculty between Cornell and Indian universities.

The programme would be offered by the College of Agriculture and Life sciences of the university, one the top ten research universities in the USA with five research centres and over 400 patents. The students would be taken on international study tours to select business centres in North America, Asia and Europe.

Hyderabad has also been selected to be home to the prestigious Indian School of Business.

UNI

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