One Day Seminar on Agro textiles held
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 16 2015 :
A one-day seminar on "Agro textiles: Holistic alternative to enhance yield and profitability of Horticulture and Agriculture" was jointly organized here by Ministry of Textiles, GOI along with COE-Agrotech, SASMIRA and KVK Imphal West on Tuesday.
The seminar was held at ICAR in association with ICAR Manipur Centre.
R P 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 on the dais.
In her welcome address, Sanyaola K Raman, Programme Coordinator stated that 60 farmers from different 12 villages attended the seminar.
In his key note address, RP Singh asked the farmers to understand the benefit of using agro-textiles as an alternate way to traditional farming for which Ministry of Textiles would provide 90% subsidy especially for North eastern regions.
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 use of agrotextiles.
Md Moin, Ayub Shaikh, Kh Hera Singh, A Rajlakshmi Devi and Dr Lydia Zimik also spoke as resource persons.