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| SKUAST organizes Awareness Programme on Mission LIFE | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 7: All India Coordinated Research Project on Dryland Agriculture Rakh Dhiansar under the aegis of SKUAST-Jammu organized an awareness programme on "Creating Awareness for rainwater harvesting and its efficient use (Catch the Rain)" on Mission LIFE (Life Style for Environment) with an apparent objective, as envisaged by the Hon'ble Prime Minister, to mobilize the Global community to adopt LIFE as a mass movement towards "Minded and deliberated utilization, instead of mindless and destructive consumption" to protect and preserve the environment.
In this awareness programme, more than 50 farmers from various villages namely Khaner, Khara, Madana, Kartholi and other adjoining areas participated and interacted with experts of relevant field. During the event, deliberations were made by the scientists to sensitize the farmers on importance of rainwater harvesting and its efficient use along with various other agro-techniques for enhancing the production and productivity of different rainfed crops under changing climatic conditions.
At the outset, Dr. A. P. Singh, Chief scientist and Incharge, All India Coordinated Research Project on Dryland Agriculture Rakh Dhiansar briefed about the awareness campaign under Mission LIFE and deliberated on in-situ and ex-situ moisture conservation techniques. Dr. R. K Srivastava, Head, Division of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, SKUAST-Jammu discussed in detail the importance of water harvesting along with recharging structures for rainfed areas to conserve the moisture for its efficient utilization during critical stages of crop and also to recharge the soil water for sustained availability of water in tube wells and ponds. He also shared various success stories wherein he had demonstrated the use of harvested water from the poly- lined water harvesting tank for field crops as well as for round the year vegetables production to fetch higher income.
Dr. Meenakshi Gupta, Professor Agronomy deliberated on various moisture conservation techniques in kandi belt of Jammu region. Dr. Jai Kumar, Chief Scientist (Agronomy) briefed about the Contingent Crop Planning for various rainfed crops under aberrant weather conditions and also discussed in detail various real time interventions to overcome the prolonged drought situations like early season drought, mid season drought and terminal drought situations for higher productivity. Rohit Sharma, Scientist (Agronomy) discussed in detail about various resource conservation technologies for moisture conservation. Dr. Brinder Singh briefed about various organic sources for enhancing the water holding capacity of soils of rainfed areas. Er. Sunny Raina discussed about the catchment-storage -command relationship to increase the production and productivity in maize-wheat cropping system. During the event, farmers also made a visit to various water harvesting structures for practical demonstration. Dr. Sonika Jamwal, Chief Scientist and Dr. A.C Jha Chief Scientist also participated in the said awareness programme.
The awareness programme ended up with a formal vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Jai Kumar, Chief Scientist (Agronomy) to the famers, experts and the persons involved in the training programme. |
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