By Our Reporter
Institution Award 2012’ to Dr. SV Ngachan, Director, ICAR Research Institute
for NEH Region, at the ICAR Foundation day ceremony held in the National
Agricultural Science Complex auditorium, New Delhi on Tuesday. (UB)
SHILLONG: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research Institute for NEH Region has been awarded the ‘Sardar Patel Outstanding ICAR Institution Award 2012’.
The award was conferred by President Pranab Mukherjee to Dr. SV Ngachan, Director of ICAR, during the ICAR Foundation day ceremony at the National Agricultural Science Complex auditorium, New Delhi on Tuesday.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the ICAR said that the institute focused on strategic programmes on Farming Systems Research and developed location specific farming system models for rural empowerment and livelihood improvement in last five years. The major thrust of institute was on conservation agriculture for various land uses, acid soil management and agro-forestry systems for sustainable hill agriculture, the statement said, adding that ICAR was able to release fourteen varieties of crops suitable for the varying agro-climatic situations of the NE region.
The artificial insemination technology for pig, developed and refined by the institute, has proved to be one of the most cost effective methods.
The institute has been continuously upgrading the production technology of the various field crops, horticultural crops, livestock, poultry and fishery including post harvest processing and mechanization. With nearly one hundred scientists spread over the head quarters and its six regional stations across eighteen odd disciplines, the institute generated 42 technologies, 5 patents and many services for the region,” the statement added.
The press release said that institute alone collected quite a significant number of germplasm (collection of genetic resources for an organism) lines of rice, and one collection from Nagaland was included in the Guinness Book of world record and it has helped as many as 96,000 famers in the region.