JOWAI: The Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, NEHU and Meghalaya Awareness Society for Communication (MASCOM), Jowai jointly organized a training programme for farmers at Sohmynting village of West Jaintia Hills District on Saturday last as part of NEHU’s efforts to ensure “lab to land transfer of technology.”
The programme titled ‘Popularization and Dissemination of Technology of Bio-pesticide formulation among the poor and marginal farmers of weaker sections’ was organized under DST Collaborating Project by Principal Investigator, Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, NEHU, Shillong Prof. H. Kayang, in collaboration with MASCOM – a society that strives to disseminate information, knowledge and technology.
The training programme focused on awareness about the latest technologies on the use of bio-pesticides, dissemination of bio-pesticides to farmers and growers and to impart training and technical know-how to farmers on their use.
As a part of the training programme, Prof. Kayang gave an explanatory lecture to the farmers and participants on the role and functions of bio-pesticides.
He informed that the bio-pesticide formulation they were disseminating was developed by his team at NEHU with technological collaboration with a lab from Bangalore. Only indigenous microbes were used in the bio-pesticide formulation which was being tried and tested at select locations across the country.
He further explained that the formulation can be used without interfering with traditional organic farming methods and can be mixed with farmyard manure or compost manure.
