The 25th ICID Congress & 74th IEC is providing a special opportunity where businesses can promote their goods and services to approximately 1200 international & national participants. This will be the world's largest business event relating to agriculture water management, particularly for irrigation and drainage hosting in India after a gap of 57 years. In addition, it is ICID’s first international event organized in South India (Visakhapatnam) with the patronage of the Andhra Pradesh Government. This mega event will provide an opportunity to experience the newest skills and products simultaneously and also allow the exchanging of information from worldwide experts in these fields.

The event provides a unique opportunity for participants to network and share their knowledge and expertise in sustainable agriculture. This includes water management, irrigation, micro-irrigation, drainage, livestock and crop production related hardware, software and knowledge based tools – all important aspects that support stable agriculture production with the goal of improving water and food security. The delegates represent a range of government and non-government organisations including policy makers, program managers, scientists, agri-business representatives and not-for-profit development organisations.