Training on cereal crops conducted
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kakching, February 28 2024:
A training programme on 'Quality Seed Production for Cereal Crops under AICRP on Seed (Crops)' was conducted at ICAR KVK, Chandel on Wednesday with Chandel district agriculture officer Ts Gladney Monsang and ICAR KVK Chandel senior scientist arid head A Ameeta Devi as the presidium members.
Delivering the keynote address, ICAR KVK Chandel SMS plant breeding Ts Leenda Mon-sang highlighted the importance of farmers' participation in seed production programme under AICRP and upcoming seed programmes for Kharif cereal crops.
Other speakers also stressed the importance of seed in agriculture and encouraged the farmers to produce quality seed in order to make available high quality seeds in abundance.
Later in the technical session, an interaction programme between scientists and farmers was conducted with SMSs (Agronomy) KI Levish, and (Agricultural Engineering) K Sonamani Singh as the experts.
As part of the training programme, maize and French bean were distributed to 40 farmers who attended the training.