Training on winter vegetable cultivation
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 03 2013:
A State level training on winter vegetable cultivation which would go on for two days under the aegis of Horticulture and Soil Conservation Department has kicked off from today at Youth Hostel, Khuman Lampak here.
The training programme is being organised under Horticulture Mission North East Himalaya.
O the first day of the training, around 100 farmers from Imphal East, Imphal West, Thoubal and Bishnupur participated.
Among the resource persons, Dr..MDinachandra, SMS, KVK, Andro enlightened the participants on the topic of 'winter vegetable cultivation', N.Kumar Mangang, Expert on Vermiculture, Mangang Agro-Tech, on 'vermiculture in vegetable crops', Dhaljit Thiyam, Expert on Temperate Mushroom on 'Mushroom Cultivation' and Dr..MThoithoi, Programme co- ordinator KVK, Wangbal on 'Insect pests and disease Management of Horticultural crops' .
On the second and last day of the training programme tomorrow, the participants would be taken on a field visit.
It is said that similar training programmes would also conducted at the same venue in batch-wise manner for other interested farmers on October 5, 7 and 9.In all the four batches, the department is targeting to 400 farmers from the four districts.