Smart Agro-Technology Innovation Youth Network (SAIYN)
Youths are considered as the future leaders of the world. Youths can contribute to a greater extent in making a better world with food security, prosperity, peach and happiness through utilizing their innovative ideas in developing advanced food production system, communicating and collaborating with fellow partners. A properly designed platform can help to stimulate the young minds to think and work together for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In response, Smart Agro-Technology Innovation Youth Network (SAIYN) was established in April 2021 at the Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, to provide a friendly environment to the learners of universities, colleges and schools, so that they (especially the female) can spontaneously share their smart agricultural ideas to the larger communities.
SAIYN is a knowledge-based learning platform for youths where they explore and boost their interests on smart and innovative agro-technologies for sustaining agricultural (crop, fisheries and livestock) production, processing and marketing to ensure food- and nutrition security. This is principally a youth-based network focusing on youth agropreneurship and empowerment. This network is formed in connection with 4-H Illinois approach through the project “Appropriate Scale Mechanization Innovation Hub (ASMIH) Phase II-Bangladesh”, a core component of Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium (ASMC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and financed by the Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab (SIIL), Kansas State University and Feed the Future, USAID, USA.
Vision of SAIYN
SAIYN to be a driving force to connect teenagers and youths around the globe to be future leaders in smart and innovative agro-technologies, engage and empower them to nurture their capabilities, and contribute to positive agricultural transformation.
Missions of SAIYN
- SAIYN connects teenagers and youths through networking; notify and motivate them through sharing knowledge, and awareness building programs on smart and innovative agro-technologies;
- SAIYN engages youths in a meaningful way through providing opportunities and collaborative undertakings on innovative agro-technologies;
- SAIYN empowers young people through capacity building events on smart agro-technologies;
- SAIYN creates an entrepreneurial culture among youths so that they can choose an agro-technology based career path after their graduation, and
- SAIYN seeks partnerships and collaborations to work in a synergistic manner towards a culture where teenagers and youths are cherished, valued, and regarded as an essential human capital for positive agricultural transformation.
Activities of SAIYN
SAIYN organizes idea competition. Watch Grand Finale of SAIYN Idea Competition 2021