 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 8: A one day Cluster meeting of Plant Doctors was conducted under CABI's Plantwise Programme at Kisan Kendra Jammu today under the Chairmanship of Director of Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare, Jammu, KK Sharma with the intent of the evaluating the working of the Plant Doctors and discussing the activity Plan for 2022.
Speaking on the occasion, KK Sharma impressed upon the Plant Doctors regularly to update knowledge regarding various aspects of the pest management including proper sampling, data collection, online validation, weather forecast based agro-advisory, analysis of data and recommendations. He highlighted the role Plant Clinics in mitigating the insect pests and disease problems of crops and further stressed on educating the farmers about use of recommended dose of pesticide at appropriate time
Dr Vinod Pandit, Programme leader, CABI, South Asia while presenting the preview of Plantwise Programme said that Directorate of Agriculture Jammu and Centre for Agricultural Biosciences International (CABI) is working towards providing the fool proof pest management advisory system through Plant Clinics.
Earlier Joint Director Agriculture (Extension), Rajan Sharma during his welcome address interacted with Plant Doctors about various aspects of the Plant pest/ disease management and discussed different bottlenecks in smooth running of E-Plant Clinics.
Arun Khajuria, I/C Plant Health Clinic Jammu presented the achievements of 41 Plant Clinics established in all 10 districts of Jammu Division. It was apprised that direct advisory service on plant pest and diseases was recorded for more than 10000 farmers till date through trained plant Doctors of plant clinics.
Plant Doctors, Dr Sishupal Bamotra and Dr Manmohan Sharma presented power point presentations on management of Tuta absoluta, an invasive pest and how to recommend Chemical Treatments respectively. |
