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Agro Universities, Agrotech

The prog will help farmers enhance productivity and profitability

The ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in association with the African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO) is organising an E-training Programme on “Agricultural Engineering Technologies for Enhancing Productivity and Profitability in Agriculture Sector” till January 21, 2022.

Delivering the inaugural address, Dr Kanchan Kumar Singh, ADG (Farm Engineering), ICAR highlighted the importance of mechanisation in the production and post-production agriculture for ensuring timely operation, precise input applications and loss reduction.

His Excellency, Dr Manoj Nardeosingh, Secretary-General, AARDO opined that mechanization technologies are highly relevant to develop countries. He also stressed that such technologies developed by the ICAR-CIAE, Bhopal and other organisations must reach AARDO member countries for sustainable and profitable agriculture.

Dr CR Mehta, Director, ICAR-CIAE, Bhopal briefed about the Institute’s activities. He also underlined the main objective of the programme to share the innovative agricultural engineering technologies developed by the institute and other organisations for up-skilling and sensitising the participants in the fields of pre and post-harvest mechanisation.

A total of 74 participants from 19 AARDO Member Countries including India are participating in the programme.

The prog will help farmers enhance productivity

Agro Universities, Agrotech

The newly-created facility would help in training and demonstration of the new weed management technologies

A Farmer’s Sabhagar was recently inaugurated at the Directorate’s Farm area in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Dr Panjab Singh, Former Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR), said, “The newly-created facility would help in training and demonstration of the new weed management technologies developed by the ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh to the farmers and other stakeholders.”

Singh also visited the field experiments and laboratory facilities at the Directorate.

While interacting with the scientists and other staff members, Dr Singh appreciated the directorate’s achievements made on the various aspects of weed management. The unparalleled growth in agricultural production, despite the COVID-19, that not only made the country self-sufficient in food grain but also enabled it to provide free ration to the rural poor was highlighted by Dr Singh.

The newly-created facility would help in training