Updated on: Friday, July 31, 2009
Bhubaneswar: Aries Agro Limited signed an MoU with KIIT University on July 27 to promote young farmers across the nation.
Prof L K Vaswani, Director, School of Rural Management, KIIT University and Rahul Mirchandani, Executive Director, Aries Agro, signed the MoU in presence of Dr A. Samanta, Founder, KIIT Group of Institutions.
Students of KIIT’s School of Management pursuing an MBA in Rural management will now be able to undertake research for Aries Agro Limited in village studies and management traineeships. The students will also be able to offer consulting advice to the company. Faculty from KIIT’s school of rural management will also provide training programmes to faculty and experts of Aries Agro.
Aries Agro will award one gold medal called 'The Aries Agro Gold Medal for ‘Excellence in Agribusiness’ every year to one outstanding student of the School of Rural Management.