By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Sep 10: Making a vigorous push for natural farming, a two-week training programme organised by the College of Agriculture (Central Agricultural University -Imphal), Kyrdemkulai, Meghalaya, in collaboration with National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP), ICAR, New Delhi came to an end on Sunday.
The training programme, thematised on ‘Natural Farming: Present status and Future Prospects’, had started on August 28.
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Dr Amapreen Lyngdoh, expressed her satisfaction about the quality of the training and progress on the development of College Of Agriculture, Kyrdemkulai, and also assured necessary support for the development of the college, during the valedictory session.
The Vice-Chancellor, CAU, Imphal, Manipur, Dr Anupam Mishra elaborated on the need of natural farming in Indian context, need for generation of competent human resources for implementing the B.Sc. Degree programme in Natural farming in the near future. He also explained about One Health Card concept.
The two-week programme consisted of a series of lectures by 26 national experts on natural farming from across the country.
The participants included Assistant Professors and Junior Scientists from four agriculture universities i.e., OUAT, Bhubaneswar; BCKV, West Bengal, AAU, Jorhat and CAU, Imphal.