 early times report
Jammu, Sept 15: The 14th Research Council Meeting of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu was organised at Chatha under the chairmanship of Prof. Dilip K. Arora, Vice Chancellor, SKUAST-J.
Besides the members, Directors of Line Departments of J&K Govt. and external expert attended the meeting. Deliberations of the meeting started with welcome address by Director Research, SKUAST-Jammu, Prof Ajay Koul.
The Vice Chancellor of SKUAST-J in his introductory remarks impressed upon participating scientists for urgent need to prioritise the research at different levels for catering to the farmers needs.
He laid stress on identifying areas for basic, strategic and adaptive type of work. A road map be prepared for the next 5-10 years so that the final product of the research are made available to the farmers in a packaged form for improving productivity and generating livelihood & food security.
He further emphasised to take up work on monopoly crops including basmati, rajmash, vegetables etc. As regards funding of the research Vice Chancellor suggested that Adhoc projects be developed on niche areas so that adequate funds are made available to the researchers.
He also stressed upon the government to release funds liberally under different Centrally Sponsored Schemes.
During the technical sessions, Dr. J.P. Sharma, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture presented the achievements made by different divisions of the faculties during the past one year. Dr. S.K. Gupta, Dean, FVSc & A.H., R.S. Pura presented head ways made during the last one year in animal disease, feed management, animal health, value addition etc. Coordinator
School of biotechnology presented projects proposed on gene mining, proteomics, disease diagnosis, micro-biol, diversity etc were projected.
New proposal to be taken up during coming year too were discussed.
In the concluding session, the eminent scientists, Prof. S.N.S. Randhawa from GADVASU, Ludhiana, appreciated the work undergoing and laid stress for further developing innovative research projects in the animal science.
The officers from Line Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Fisheries, Forest raised some points on specific subject for developing research projects and also assured financial support for carrying out the research work.
The meeting concluded with the vote of thanks by Dr. K.S. Risam, Director Extension, SKUAST-Jammu. |
