The pact will help to popularise the VEGFAST technology and develop a modified model for the coastal region
The ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Goa signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh to ’Popularise the VEGFAST Technology and develop a modified model for the Coastal Region.’
Dr Parveen Kumar, Director, ICAR-CCARI, Goa and Dr Manoj Kumar, Director, ICAR-CPRI, Shimla signed the MoU on the behalf of their respective organisations.
The VEGFAST Technology developed by the ICAR-CPRI, Research Station, Jalandhar, Punjab is one of the Trademark Technologies for urban gardening. It has a massive scope in Goa where healthy and fresh vegetables can be grown on terraces, balconies and rooftops of the housing societies, restaurants, hotels and beach fronts.
With the MoU, both the Institutes aim to undertake collaborative research on rooftop vegetable cultivation in the form of VEGFAST Technology and develop a modified model of the technology suitable for the prevailing agronomic conditions of the coastal region.
As per the MoU, the Institutes will share the available facilities related to collaborative research and the ICAR-CCARI, Goa will popularise and transfer the ICAR-CPRI VEGFAST Technology in the Coastal Region.
The senior officials of both the institutes were present during the occasion.
