28th September, 2020, Jhansi
The ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Forage Crops and Utilization, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh virtually organized its “Virtual National Group Meeting Rabi - 2020-21” today.
In his inaugural address, Dr. Tilak Raj Sharma, Deputy Director General (Crop Science), ICAR applauded the scientists and staff members for coordinating the establishment of the “Golden Jubilee Forage Garden” at 33 State Agricultural Universities, Central Agricultural Universities, NGOs and the ICAR Institutes across the country. He urged to maintain the garden for the years to come to sensitize the visiting farmers, students, dignitaries and other stakeholders. Dr. Sharma also emphasized on developing an action plan to minimize the Berseem seed import.
Dr. A.K. Roy, Project Coordinator presented the brief introduction of the project, its salient achievements during the last three year’s period and summary of the various activities carried out during the Rabi 2019-20 along with the new initiatives for future programmes.
Around 9 Publications including the ICAR-AICRP Annual Report on Rabi 2019-20, 2 Books on “Database of Forage Crop Varieties : 2020” and “Glimpses of Tribal Sub Plan Activities of ICAR-AICRP on Forage Crops and Utilization” along with 1 Bulletin on “Technological Advances in Forage Crop Protection” and 4 Farmers’ Friendly Literatures in Regional / National Languages were released during the occasion.
The rapporteurs of the different sessions presented the salient recommendations during the plenary session.
A total of 13 new varieties including 3 in Berseem, 1 in White clover, 2 in multicut fodder summer Bajra, 7 in fodder oats under different cutting management for different zones were identified for release in the Varietal Identification Committee Meeting, held under the chairmanship of Dr. Tilak Raj Sharma, Deputy Director General (Crops Science), ICAR.
More than 100 participants including the senior officials of ICAR and its Institutes virtually participated in the meeting.
(Source: ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Forage Crops and Utilization, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh)
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