Agro textiles seminar held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 16 2015 :
One day seminar on "Agro textiles: Holistic alternative to enhance yield and profitability of Horticulture and Agriculture" was jointly organized by Ministry of Textiles, GOI and COE-Agrotech, SASMIRA and KVK Imphal West in association with ICAR Manipur Centre today at ICAR.
RP Singh, Scientist C, SASMIRA, Dr N Prakash, Joint Director, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region Manipur Centre and Md Moin, Regional Manager, CTM Agro-textiles were seated on the dais.
In her welcome address, Sanyaola K Raman, Programme Coordinator, stated that 60 farmers from 12 different villages attended the seminar.
In his key note address, RP Singh asked the farmers to understand the benefit of using agro-textiles as an alternative to traditional farming for which Ministry of Textiles would provide 90 pc subsidy especially for North Eastern region.
Dr N Prakash stated that a demonstration unit is being constructed at ICAR Langol farm by the Ministry of Textiles in which farmers would be trained on the use of agrotextiles.
Md Moin, Ayub Shaikh, Kh Hera Singh, A Rajlakshmi Devi and Dr Lydia Zimik also delivered lectures as the resource persons.