7th November 2022, Goa
ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa, Goa in collaboration with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) are organizing International Training Program on “Diversification of Coastal Agroecosystems for Climate Resilience and Livelihood Security” during 07 to 11 November 2022. The traning programme was inaugurated here today.
The Chief Guest, Dr Suresh Kumar Chaudhari, Deputy Director General (Natural Resource Management, briefed about the importance of diversification, climate resilience and livelihood in coastal regions as different components of the training programme. He also highlighted the importance of coastal agricultural information system (CAIS) which will act as a knowledge platform and a way forward to sustainable coastal agriculture benefiting farmers, scientists and policy makers. Dr Chaudhari emphasized that agro-ecotourism has opened up a new avenue to increase farm income in the rural areas besides motivating and attracting youth in agriculture. He also launched Coastal Agricultural Information System (CAIS) developed by ICAR-CCARI.
Dr Parveen Kumar, Director, ICAR- CCARI, in his welcome address, briefed about the coastal agroecosystem and briefed about the recent achievements of ICAR-CCARI.
Dr Javed Rizvi, Director, CIFOR-ICRAF, Asia, Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar, Country Director, CIFOR-ICRAF, India Dr Shiv Kumar Dhyani, Country Coordinator, CIFOR-ICRAF and Dr A. Arunachalam, Director, ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh were the Guests of Honour.
Dr Rizvi urged to identify opportunities for mutual collaboration among participating countries.
Dr Dhyani briefed about CIFOR-ICRAF and its collaboration with ICAR. He has also mentioned that India is the first country to have national agroforestry policy.
Dr Arunachalam highlighted the importance of coastal ecosystems and coastal products.
Dr Biradar stressed that climate change is a fact and rising sea level, and land degradation especially in coastal regions which is adversely impacting agriculture.
International participants from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives and Vietnam attended the inaugural event.
(Source: ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa, Goa)
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