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| KVK Reasi celebrates International Women’s Day | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 8: Krishi Vigyan Kendra(KVK),Reasi under the aegis of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology-Jammu (SKUAST-J) celebrated the International Women’s Day here today at Bhaga village in Reasi district of J&K which was enthusiastically attended by a large number of rural women of the area. The programme was organised under the dynamic stewardship of Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof. B.N. Tripathi and able guidance of Director Extension Prof. Amrish Vaid of SKUAST-J. The programme was inaugurated by the Chief Scientist & Head of KVK Reasi,Dr.Banarsi Lal.While speaking during the inaugural session he spoke on the significance of event and spoke in length on gender equality and women’s rights. He applauded the extraordinary contribution of women in the development of the society. He highlighted the balanced diet and guided the participants on Nutri-Garden, Biofortified varieties of different crops and Nutri Thali. He also guided the women for value addition in the fruits and vegetables.He said that women play a pivotal role in the crops production and productivity but their contribution is marginalised. He suggested the participants to form the Self Help Groups (SHGs)/Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs) and start the micro-enterprises in the rural areas so that their socio-economic condition can be improved.Earlier Sh.Jugal Kishore Sharma, Nodal Officer,JKRLM started the programme with warm welcome of the participants. He stressed on the empowerment of rural women as they play a crucial role in raising the economy of the nation.He highlighted the equal rights of women in economics, social and political sectors. He said that there is need to create gender balance in the society for the overall development of the nation.He urged participants to tackle the persistent barriers against gender equality.He stressed on the female literacy and asked participants to provide quality education to their female children.Smt.Anita Kumari, an awardee woman farmer of the area spoke on entrepreneurship development in agriculture and stressed on the post-harvest technologies by which extra income and employment can be created among the rural women. She thanked KVK Reasi for guiding the rural women on post-harvest technologies.The dignitaries also distributed award certificates to the progressive women farmers during the event.They also visited the processing units of SHGs and were highly impressed by observing the results of various products prepared by them. In this event programme, participants interacted with the officials and raised various quarries which were answered satisfactorily by experts.The programme was assisted by Sh.Summer Qureshi and concluded by Smt.Anita Kumari with the formal vote of thanks. |
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