Prof. S.Venku Reddy, Executive Director, PRDIS is an agricultural extension and rural development expert with over three decades of experience in teaching, research, training and extension. He has hands-on experience in agricultural extension management, evaluation studies, project preparation and planning, agriculture biotechnology and capacity building programmes. Before founding PRDIS, Dr. Reddy served as Professor of Agricutlural Extension and Head, Extension Education Institute, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Agricultural Extension Services Advisor, Government of Uganda, and Consultant, World Bank. Mr. K.L. Srivastava, Consultant, PRDIS is a specialist in natural resources management. He is a former Senior Scientist of ICRISAT, Hyderabad. He also worked as Consultant in Indo-Dutch APWELL Project, Hyderabad. He is associated with Public Awareness Programmes on Biotechnology and Environmental Issues. T. Goverdhan Reddy, President, PRDIS is specialist in Agricultural Economics. Earlier he worked as Professor of Agricultural Economics, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. He has worked in crop economic, and environmental research programmes