From Our Correspondent
Baghmara, Jan 27: A farmers’ field day on maize under Front Line Demonstrators on organic practices of maize cultivation was conducted at Asugre in South Garo Hills.
Around 25 participants from Asugre and nearby villages attended the programme.
Principal Scientist and Head, CAU-KVK SGH, Athokpam Haribhushan congratulated the farmers for successfully demonstrating the technology introduced by the centre and encouraged other farmers to adopt it to acquire an increased yield, which will increase the income of farmers.
During the technical session, Rike Chelchak A Sangma, SMS (Agronomy), CAU-KVK SGH lectured on seed production of maize and storage technologies that can be adopted by the farmers for creating a seed village in the district for further dissemination of the improved varieties of maize.
Further distribution of hermatic bags for seed storage and farmers and scientist interaction programme was also conducted.