Member	Developed country	Developing country
Institutional Member	US$ 1000	US$250
Member	US$100	US$25
Founder member	US$50	US$12.50
		INR 600/-

PAYMENT MODE

The Payment be made by Bank Demand Draft or Cheque in favour of Dr. Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation (Project – VEGINET), SB. A/C No. 0417101040780 (for Rupees) or SB A/C No. 0417101039815 (for USD) and payable at Canara Bank, Vyalikaval, Bangalore – 560 003, Karnataka, INDIA.

RESOURCE GENERATION

MMobilize adequate financial resources for support of joint projects at institutions in the VEGINET. This could be done from contribution of countries, bilateral and multilateral agencies for developing strategic plans, external funding, including public and private sectors.

• Help identify priority areas for Development Research and formulate joint programmes of action to improve human competence to production, protection, processing marketing, distribution and better use of vegetables and other perishable produce as dietary components.
• Help developing countries to formulate policy, design strategy and programmes of action nationally, inter-regionally and globally to increase availability of vegetables in a sustainable manner.
• Using the existing Centers of Excellence build inter-institutional and inter-country networks to solve specific problems of mutual interest. The joint projects for solution of these problems should include professional bodies of scientists and technologists and associations of farmers, traders and industrialists. This will accelerate use of research results.
• Facilitate creation of National and Regional Technology Exchanges for collection, retrieval, and dissemination of knowledge to the users.
• Encourage, promote and facilitate international scientific and technological cooperation through exchange of personnel.
• A publication exchange programme should be developed for newsletters, journals, reports, pamphlets and books in specific areas of Vegetable Science & Technology and related areas for institutions to help maintain closer links between them.
• Provide assistance in building of new institutions and strengthening the existing ones for inclusion in the VEGINET, to deal with the problems where they actually exist.
• Promote and strengthen center(s) or special programmes for human resource development in management of R&D, DR, institutions and also technology assessment competence within processing industries.
• Create and maintain a global directory of professionals and/or establish a Human Resource Bank, from which expert consultants can be drawn by institutions and countries. Similarly, a directory of equipment manufacturers and suppliers should also be prepared. This can be covered by the existing institutions under contract and financed by advertisements and grants from the industry or bilateral agencies.
• VEGINET can act as a consultative body on vegetable science, technology and related economic matters that have an international or inter-regional dimension.
• Establish commissions and / or other functional bodies of VEGINET, to deal with specific scientific, technological and economic problems of the vegetable system.
• Take on any other activity to deal with the problem of vegetable science & technology that would contribute to raising production, ensure better crop and product protection and help to raise farm incomes for improving the quality of life.

The General Assembly of VEGINET will be the policy making and programme planning body. It will have one representative of each member institution. The Executive Board, elected by the General Assembly will implement the decisions taken by the General Assembly and report to it. The primary duty of the Executive Board will be to conduct and manage all the official affairs of VEGINET between meetings of the General Assembly. This will include such specific responsibilities as preparation of budget, collection and disbursement of funds and supervision of its programme of work and of the VEGINET Secretariat. The Executive Board will also be authorized to take specific policy decisions which would be endorsed / ratified by the General Assembly.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Office	Name	Country
Chairperson	Dr. Prem Nath	India
Adviser	Mrs. Alison Hodder	FAO
Regional Vice Chairpersons	Dr. Ahmed Moustafa Dr. Michael Boehme Dr. J.S. Dias Dr. Ravza Mavlyanova Dr. Usha R. Palaniswami	UAE Germany Portugal Uzbekistan USA
Secretary General (HQ)	Dr. Anupam Varma	India
Assistant Secretary General	Dr. Aminuzzaman Talukder	Cambodia
Treasurer	Dr. O.P. Dutta	India
Member representing different regions	Dr. Acram Taji Dr. O.O. Fadina Dr. Grisana Linwattana Dr. Fu. Zetian Dr. San San Yi	Australia Nigeria Thailand China Myanmar