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Farmers FIRST Programme launched at Mao Pungdong
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 20 2023:
Directorate of Extension Education, Central Agricultural University, Imphal today organised "Input distribution of Farmer FIRST Programme" at Mao Pungdong village in Senapati district.
It was attended by Dr Lorho S Pfoze, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (Outer Manipur); Dr Anupam Mishra, Vice Chancellor, CAU, Imphal and Prof Ph Ranjit Sharma, Director of Extension Education and Principal Investigator of Farmer FIRST Programme, CAU, Imphal as presidium members.
At the event, Dr Anupam Mishra stressed on the need for farmers to integrate scientific technology in agriculture to promote sustainable livelihood development.
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Dr Lorho S Pfoze appealed to the villagers to cooperate among themselves and follow the guidelines given by CAU Imphal to make the Farmer FIRST project successful and improve their socio-economic condition.
Later, farm equipment including Egg Incubator, Mini Rice Mill, Power Generator, Sprayer, Piglets, Potato tubers, Cucumber seeds, etc were provided to the farmers of Mao Pungdong village.
It is worth noting that the Farmer FIRST (Farm, Innovation, Resources, Science & Technology) Programme was initiated by the PMO and currently FFP programmes are running in 52 centres across the country under 11 ICAR- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARIs) .
3 centres are running in the North East region under 2 ICAR-ATARIs.
CAU, Imphal is currently implementing this project at two new hill districts of Manipur namely Maopungdong village, Senepati district and Shangshak Khullen village, Ukhrul district.
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