6th April 2023, Jatrapur, Cooch Behar
Dr. Himanshu Pathak, Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR), visited the BM Mushroom Enterprise at Jatrapur village in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal today.
The mushroom farm is not only producing high-quality mushroom spawn, but also mushroom value-added products, which are marketed to different parts of the country.
The Director General interacted with the engineer turned mushroom entrepreneur, Shri. Biprojyoti Bhowmik, the head of the enterprise. Dr. Pathak lauded the effort and said that the youth of today's society need to come forward in this kind of farming. He also appreciated the way in which KVK was guiding the rural youth to become entrepreneurs.
This has encouraged other youths in the area like Shri Amit Biswas who joined in the effort after successfully completing B.Sc. in Horticulture from Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV), Pundibari, West Bengal. He said that Krishi Vigyan Kendra is providing various types of training in rural areas and a New Agrivers Farmers Producer Company has been created to expand mushroom cultivation to rural areas.
Dr. Pradip Dey, Director, ICAR-ATARI, Kolkata said there was a need to spread this type of entrepreneurship in rural areas to turn youths from job seekers to job givers. He urged the KVKs to intensify the efforts to increase agri-entrepreneurs in the country.
Dr. Prabhat Kumar Pal, Director of Extension Education, UBKV and Dr. Bikash Roy, Senior Scientist and Head of Cooch Behar KVK, and other Scientists of research Institutes and SMS of KVKs were also present in the program.
(Source: ICAR- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kolkata)
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