Training cum Exposure visit for progressive farmers under NAIP
A two days training cum exposure visit for 14 progressive farmers of Upper Subansiri &
West Siang district under NAIP project was successfully organized at Lakshmi Agriculture Multipurpose Project, Pabhoi in Biswanath Chirali district of Assam. Farmers were trained in the field of organic farming, paddy cum fish culture, vermicompost, Bio-pesticides, System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and composite fish culture. During interaction session with Mrs. Peggy Caswell & Mr. Weil Turner, Fertile ground, Canada advised the participating farmers to adopt organic farming. Exposure visits were also arranged to the research farm of Baiswanath College of Agriculture, to witness the recent cultivation technologies of rubber, tea, spices, banana and flowers. At the same time they got acquainted with different farm machineries and tools in North Eastern Regional Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institute, Biswanath Chirali (Assam). This programme was lead by Dr Raghuveer Singh, Scientist, ICAR, Arunachal Pradesh centre, Basar.
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