Across the world, Farmers and Farm Sectors play a very important role in ensuring Food Security to every level of society. They are always called the backbone of any country. With the fast-moving Digital World we should ensure farmers, agripreneurs , farmer corporations should go Digital and reap all the benefits of technology.

Aligning to Kumaraguru Institution’s objectives of empowering farmers and Cognizant’s Virtual Volunteering trend, Kumaraguru Institute of Agriculture in partnership with the Cognizant Outreach team brings an exclusive Platform to empower farmers, agripreneurs , farmer corporations in Tamil Nadu through series of skilling programs.

Certified trainers with experience will be identified for training the participants virtually in regional language.

In the first batch, 30 participants will undergo this 2 month skilling program. Each participant will be exclusively mentored by a Cognizant volunteer throughout the course duration to ensure that the knowledge imparted is practiced with hands on experience.

Some of the focus areas identified are

Digital Literacy

  • Mastering Excel for inventory, office and customer management
  • Digital Marketing – Social Media, Website 
  • Effective Communication – Emails , Presentations 
  • E-Commerce

Financial Literacy

  • Internet Banking
  • Budgeting
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Investments

Program Structure

Duration of Program 8 Weeks (40 hours)
Number of Participants per Batch30
Virtual Session (Trainer led)2 hours per week
Volunteer Mentoring 3 hours per week
Number of Cognizant volunteers 30
Number of KIA faculty Involved3