Training cum awareness for farmers held
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, June 16 2022:
Under its Manos Unidas Project, the Diocesan Social Service Society (DSSS), Mantripukhri organised a training-cum-awareness programme for farmers at Keipham village, Sugnu on Sunday.
During the programme, Chandel ICAR-KVK SWCE CTO Dr Kangjam Sonamani Singh spoke on various aspects of resource conservation suitable in the climes of the district.
He urged the farmer participants to adopt farming technologies that characterises enhanced crop and livestock production systems through application of improved production and risk management technologies to achieve long-term higher farm productivity and farm incomes under climate variabilities.
He also stressed on the need to embrace natural resource conservation methodologies with utmost sincerity and motivated the farmers to adopt simple yet smart water harvesting technologies so as to improve the crop output and productivity, held efficiency and farm profitability.
He then called upon the farmers to adopt soil fertility enhancing practices and inculcate the habit of reusing, reducing and recycling through mulching and vermicomposting.
During the programme, he spoke in detail about the site specific technology packages on farmers' fields for adapting to the present climate risks.
He deliberated on the different aspects of conserving agricultural practices to build organic carbon and to build congenial environment for plant growth and manure management.
The programme was attended by 68 farmers.