4th-7th March 2024, Jammu
The XXVIII Biennial Workshop of All India Coordinated Research Project for Dryland Agriculture and XI Annual Review Meeting of AICRPDA-National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture was organised at Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Jammu from 4th -7th March 2024.
The Chief Guest, Dr. S.K. Chaudhari, Deputy Director General, ICAR-Natural Resources Management, inaugurated the programme.
Dr. S.K. Chaudhari emphasized the need for diversifying income and advocated for increased use of renewable energy and water harvesting to mitigate the impact of deficit rainfall. Dr. B. N. Tripathi, Vice Chancellor, SKUAST-Jammu drew attention to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and underscored the need to educate farmers on sustainable agricultural practices.
Dr. V. K. Singh, Director, ICAR-CRIDA urged the need for efficient natural resource management and climate-resilient agriculture and emphasized the need for focused research proposals.
Dr. B.N. Tripathi, Vice-Chancellor, SKUAS-Jammu, Dr. Vinod Kumar Singh, Director, ICAR-CRIDA, Dr. S. K. Gupta, Director, Research & Registrar, SKUAT-J, Dr. P. K. Mishra, Former Director, ICAR-IISCR, Dehradun, Dr. Venugopalan, Former Head PME, ICAR-CICR, Nagpur, Dr. D. M. Hegde, Former Director, ICAR-IIOR, Hyderabad, Dr. N. P. Singh, Former Director, ICAR-CCARI, Goa and Dr. B. Venkateswarlu, Former Vice-Chancellor, VNMKV, Parbhani, were present during the programme.
The progress of the ongoing AICRPDA and NICRA projects was reviewed during the programme.
Scientists from the AICRPDA centers and ICAR-CRIDA attended the workshop.
(Source: Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture(CRIDA), Hyderabad)
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