Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 21: To aware masses about the serious threat being posed by continuous and unabated spread of Parthenium almost in all agro-ecologies of Jammu Division, two different teams of scientists from Division of Agronomy of SKUAST-Jammu simultaneously organized a stakeholder-scientist interaction campaigns at villages Dhalote, in Samba and Village Fatehpur in R S Pura.
The camps were held in collaboration with Pulses Research Station-Samba and FSR-Chatha which was attended by more than 40 farmers at each location besides some Panchayat members, students and enthusiastic citizens.
The scientific teams associated with these programmes comprised of Dr Dileep Kachroo, Dr B C Sharma, Dr Anil Kumar, Dr Brij Nandan, Dr Vijay Khajuria, Dr Rajeev Sangra, Dr Rohit Sharma, Dr Irfan Ahmed, Dr Permendra Singh and Mahesh Kumar.
During the exhaustive interactive sessions, the stakeholders were educated about the abuses of this dreadful and horrible weed that follows no climatic and edaphic boundaries occupying an area of more than 35 million hectares in the country.
Various preventive quarantine measures, eradication, chemical control and biological management strategies were advocated to the stakeholders at length besides acquainting the farmers about the latest know-how about the compost making techniques from Parthenium--the only beneficial aspect of this growing hazard. |
