ICAR Emphasizes on Doubling Farm Income through Tuber Crops Based Entrepreneurship
Source: IT News
Imphal, March 17 2018:
ICAR organized one day stakeholder's workshop on "Tuber Crops Based Entrepreneurship in Manipur- Scope and Opportunities" at Imphal on 15 March, 2018 in collaboration with CTCRI, Trivandrum and KVK, Ukhrul.
Dr..NPrakash, Director, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region emphasized on doubling the farm income through tuber crops based enterprises.
Chief Guest, P..KBal, Chairman of Manipur Rural Bank elaborated the role of bankers in entrepreneurship development.
Dr..IMeghachandra Singh, Joint Director, appealed the stakeholders for optimum utilization of the Tuber Crops Incubation Centres established by ICAR at Riha and Thoyee villages of Ukhrul.
The Scientific delegates from CTCRI, Trivandrum, Dr..RMuthuraj, Dr..DJaganathan and Dr..TKrishnakumar provided technical back up to the stakeholders.
The Convener of the workshop, Dr..M.RSahoo has highlighted the success story of the tuber crop incubation centres as the life line of the tribal communities.
Over 50 entrepreneurs, SHG members, scientists and technicians have participated in this programme.