Awareness programme held at Hengbung
Source: The Sangai Express
Kangpokpi, January 09 2021:
CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in collaboration with Foundation for Environment and Economic Development Services (FEEDS) organized an awareness programme on 'Improved cultivation and processing technology of aromatic crops for income enhancement of tribal farmers' at FEEDS Campus, Hengbung in Kangpokpi District.
Officials from CSIR-CIMAP including Manoj Kumar Yadav, Ishrar Ali and Mipin Kumar along with Dr Dhanaraj Singh Thokchom, Senior Scientist, FEEDS Hengbung attended the training session of the programme as resource persons.
Importance of farming, processing and income generation through lemongrass, rose and citronella was deliberated by the resource persons.
Farmers, youths and women from several villages of Kangpokpi and Senapati districts participated in the awareness programme.