“Annual Review Workshop of NICRA-KVKs in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa” organized

8 - 9 June, 2022, Jalna - 1

The ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra; ICAR-Central Research Institute on Dry land Agriculture, Hyderabad and Marathwada Sheti Sahayya Mandal, Jalna, Maharashtra jointly organized the Annual Review Workshop of NICRA-KVKs in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Jalna - I, Maharashtra from 8^th to 9^th June, 2022.

Inaugurating the Workshop, the Chief Guest, Dr. V.K. Singh, Director, ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad appreciated the KVK’s efforts for the work done in the first phase of NICRA. He also underlined that the water and Green House Gas (GHG) emission is a global constraint now-a-days. In this situation, keeping the livestock, fisheries and poultry will have more priority in the scenario of climate change. The implementation of the new phase of NICRA by following the Farming System Typology approach was also stressed by Dr. Singh.

Shri Vijay Anna Borade, Trustee, MSSM, Jalna, Maharashtra accentuated on the need of incorporating some treatments related to the watershed in a next phase of NICRA. He regarded the soil conservation as an only alternative in solving the water problem in the climate sensitive Districts.

Dr. Lakhan Singh, Director, ICAR-ATARI, Pune, Maharashtra underlined that NICRA is a participatory research project and urged the KVKs to use their wisdom as per their locations while implementing the activities.

Outlining the climatic situation of the Marathwada Region, Dr. D.B. Devsarkar, Director Extension Education, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani, Maharashtra emphasized for adopting the intercropping systems like Cotton+Soybean, Red Gram+Soybean, etc., and the crop diversification by the introduction of look of like Ajwain, Rajma and to focus on pulses and oilseeds to address the climate change issues in the NICRA Villages.

Dr. S.V. Sonune, Head, KVK, Jalna, Maharashtra shared the experiences of the Village watershed and successful interventions of NICRA.

Dr. J.V.N.S. Prasad, Coordinator, TDC-NICRA, ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad and Dr. A.V.M. Subba Rao, Principal Scientist, ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad also participated and deliberated during the occasion.

More than 45 participants including Principal Investigators, Co-Principal Investigators, Research Associates, Senior Research Fellows and Scientists of 11 NICRA-KVKs from Maharashtra, Gujarat & Goa and 3 Centers of Farmers FIRST Project from Maharashtra and Gujarat participated in the workshop.

(Source: ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra)