Skill Development Training Programme on Business Statistics using AI & SAS Softwares Concludes at SKUAST-K Wadura Sopore

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SOPORE FEBRUARY 21 :–A week long skill development training programme on “Business Statistics Using R, Excel & SAS Softwares” was concluded today on 21st of Feb. 2023, at the Division of Agricultural Economics and Statistics, Faculty of Agriculture, Wadura, SKUAST-Kashmir. It was second Seven Days’ MSME Skill Development training programme on the same subject. The objective of the training was to equip the students and participants with business statistics, data science, its analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Block chain, Supply/Value Chain, and other various statistical and economic techniques used in business management. At the beginning of the Valedictory event, the Course Co-ordinator, Prof. Tariq Ahmad Raja, Head, Division of Agriculture Economics and Statistics, spoke on the topic ‘Business Statistics and its role in present times. The program was attended by twenty five students. He stressed upon the participants to inculcate the interest in the subjects of Statistics, Economics, Computers & Data Science.

The participants got acquainted with R, Excel, SAS & other Software Languages through various lectures delivered by the experts from within and outside the faculty particularly by Prof. Shakeel Ahmad Mir, faculty of Horticulture and Dr. Iqbal Jeelani , faculty of forestry.

Altaf Hussain Haji (ISS) DDG, National Statistical Office, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, was the chief guest of the valedictory event. He spoke about the prospects of the subject and impressed upon the participants to explore the possibilities in this field as their career option.

The Chief Guest also talked about the various aspects of G-20 (Premier Forum for International Economic Cooperation).
The Co-coordinators, Dr Showket Maqbool, Associate professor and Dr. Faheem Wani, Assistant Professor also talked on the subject and impressed upon the participants to learn basics of Data Science, Economics and Block Chain. The training program was designed to cover the need in contemporary business and entrepreneurship skills.

The Valedictory function was attended by various heads of the Divisions,
Prof. M Ayoub Mantoo, Prof Amal Saxena, Prof. Javeed Ahmad, Prof. Mushtaq A Malik, Prof. Asif Bashir, Students welfare Officer Dr. Aijaz Qureshi and Mr. Irshad Ahmad, PA to Dean.

In the end, Dr. Sajad Abdullah Saraf, Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, briefed the participants about business economics and entrepreneurship development, and also presented the formal vote of thanks to all the participants especially the chief guest of the training programme.