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| SKUAST organizes farmer awareness cum input distribution programme | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 25: Agrometeorology Section, SKUAST-J under the aegis of Prof. J.P.Sharma, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor and guidance of Dr. Pardeep Wali, Director Research, SKUAST-Jammu organized one day "Farmer awareness cum input distribution programme" at SKUAST-J, Main Campus Chatha on 25th November, 2022. Prof. J.P.Sharma, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, SKUAST-J graced the occasion as Chief Guest, Dr. Pardeep Wali, Director Research and Dr. B. C. Sharma, Dean FoA, SKUAST-Jammu were guest of Honour of the programme. In this programme 100 farmers (male and female) participated. The main objective of this programme was to distribute the high yielding wheat seed to the SCs and STs farmers for raising their production and income also.
The programme was preceded by Dr. Mahender Singh, Prof. and Incharge AICRPAM, Agrometeorology Section who welcomed the gathering and discussed in detail about the importance of organizing such awareness programme. He emphasized the use of weather and climate based agro-advisories in day to day agricultural activities and stressed upon the farmers to make more and more utilization in order to save the input cost of various crops by adopting forecasting rendered by Agrometeorology Section, SKUAST-J, Chatha.
Prof. J.P.Sharma, Hon'ble Vice Chancellor was the chief guest of the occasion and highlighted the various activities undertaken by the university for the welfare of the farmers for boosting their income from agriculture enterprises and also encouraged the farmers to take more and more participation in such type of programme. He emphasized the farmer community to come forward regarding their agricultural related problems. He also distributed 100 packets of Wheat seed variety DBW-222 to the farmers of different border villages.
Dr. Pardeep Wali, Director Research, SKUAST-Jammu stressed upon the farmers to adopt the new climate resilient technologies developed by SKUAST-J, Chatha, Jammu. He encouraged the farmers to work in a collective approach to take the maximum output from field by reducing the input used in field.
Dr. B.C. Sharma, Dean FoA highlighted the various climate smart agronomical operations for enhancing the productivity of different crop in relation to weather. He also brief out the importance of diversification of crops in traditional cropping system.
Dr. Amrish Vaid, Nodal Officer Mega Seed emphasize the management of various integrated disease management practices in rabi crops. Dr. Anjani Kumar Singh, Sr.Scientist, Mega Seed explained the farmers regarding Improved seed multiplication techniques of various crops at farmer field. Dr. Ramphool Puniya, Jr.Scientist Weed Management explained the farmers about effective weed management in different rabi crops without harssening the quality of soil and crops. He emphasized the farmers for applying optimum dose and timely application of weedcide for getting maximum benefits to achieve economic and ecological goals with the least efforts. Dr. Veena Sharma, Technical Officer, GKMS highlighted importance of weather based agroadvisories in day today farm operations. Dr M.C Diwedi, Dr Vishal Raina, Dr. Charu Sharma Dr. Monika Banotra, Ramdhan, Dharamvir and other staffs of Agrometeorology and Mega seed also participated in this programme.
Dr. Amrish Vaid, Nodal Officer presented the vote of thanks and also appreciated the woman farmers participation. |
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