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| KVK organizes officers' training on market intelligence, FPOs | | | Early Times Report
SAMBA, Dec 8: Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Samba under the administrative control of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu today organized in-service training programme on Market Intelligence for officers of Agriculture Depatment, Samba. The programme was organized under the dynamic leadership of Professor. J.P Sharma, Vice-Chancellor, SKUAST-Jammu and the aegis of Directorate of Extension, SKUAST-J.
Dr. Vinod Gupta, Senior Scientist & Head, KVK Samba welcomed the participants and briefed about the importance of organizing a training programme on Market Intelligence with the objective of marketing of agriculture produce and formation of FPOs to achieve efficient marketing. He elaborated that recent hike of Minimum Support Price by Government of India and implementation of electronic national agriculture market (e-NAM) further triggered the issue for creating awareness among farmers on market related issues. The scientists from Faculty of Agriculture delivered expert lectures on the latest aspects on agricultural marketing. Dr. Sudhakar Dwivedi, Associate Professor from Division of Agricultural Economics & ABM discussed about the concept of market led extension in agriculture. He suggested participants to disseminate the rule of market intelligence in agriculture marketing at grassroot level.
Dr. Pawan Kumar Sharma, Scientist (Agril. Economics), discussed the modalities of formation and promotion of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs). The responsibilities of SKUAST-Jammu as Cluster Based Business Organizations (CBBO) and providing agencies such as NABARD, NCDC & NAFED were also discussed in detail. Dr. Anil Bhat, Assistant Professor explained the market information system prevailing in the country and discussed the regulations and acts relevant to agriculture and elaborated the mechanism of Futures Commodity Markets for assuring efficient price for agricultural commodities.
The training programme was attended by 20 participants from Agriculture Department who shared the ground level concerns of farmers and discussed the opportunities available to the farmers for realizing better price for their produce. The other scientists interacted during the training programme were Dr. Sanjay Khajuria,, Dr. A.K. Sinha, Dr. Saurav Gupta, Dr. Vijay Kumar Sharma, Dr. Shalini Khajuria and Dr. Amit Mahajan of KVK Samba.
At the end of programme, the formal vote of thanks was presented by Dr. Neerja Sharma. |
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