Aims to create entrepreneurship options for farmers, youth and unemployed workers
“Transfer of Mushroom Production Technology as an entrepreneurship option to farmers, youth and unemployed workers under COVID-19 Pandemic”, a Technology Transfer Programme (TTP) on Mushroom was initiated by ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research on August 26, 2020.
The programme was appreciated by Dr Sanjay Kumar Balyan, Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying for promoting self-employment in the rural areas.
The guest of honour, Vijaypal Singh Tomar, MP lauded the integrated farming systems with mushroom and other enterprises as an effective solution for the problems of land fragmentation and other problems being faced by the small and marginal farmers.
Dr S Bhaskar, ADG (Agronomy, Agroforestry and Climate Change), Natural Resource Management Division, ICAR stressed on the need for secondary agriculture businesses like Mushroom production and processing and value-addition of farm produce through the formation of the Farmers’ Producers’ Organizations (FPOs) for promoting self-employment in the rural areas.
The primary objective of the programme is to generate self-employment by providing technical expertise of mushroom production to the youth, farmers and persons affected with reverse migration because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 46 participants from 7 states of the country virtually participated in the programme
