ICAR-CIWA celebrates Foundation Day

23^rd March, 2019, Bhubaneswar

The ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar celebrated its Foundation today. The Institute also organized the Technology Demonstration Mela and Scientists’-Farmers’-Interface Session on the occasion.

Shri Narendra Singh Rathore, DDG (Agricultural Education), marked his presence as the Chief Guest and Prof. Padmaja Mishra, Vice-Chancellor, Rama Devi Women University, Bhubaneswar as the Guest of Honour of the occasion.

Dr. Rathore highlighted the ICAR-CIWA’s pivotal role in mainstreaming the women farmers to enhance their empowerment

Earlier, Dr. S.K. Srivastava, Director, ICAR-CIWA, in his welcome address, urged to enhance the economic security of farm families with the help of various women-friendly profitable enterprises.

The Technology Demonstration Mela offered the women farmers a perfect platform for knowing about the plethora of drudgery reducing women-friendly small tools and equipments, viz., groundnut decorticator & stripper, seed treatment drum, seed driller, fertilizer broadcaster, maize de-husker-cum-sheller, seed cleaner-cum-grader, potato slicer, coconut de-husker, etc.

The women-friendly harvesting bags developed under the AICRP on Ergonomics and Safety in Agriculture demonstrated during the occasion, received a favourable response from the various stakeholders.

The farmers also got their queries well-attended and solved by the Scientific and technical experts from the Institute during the Scientists’-Farmer’-Interface Session held during the occasion.

The progressive women farmers were also felicitated for their outstanding contributions in field of agriculture, horticulture, dairy farming, poultry, aquaculture, mushroom farming and bee-keeping, etc., during the occasion.

A total of 200 farm women from the Institute adopted villages covering Puri, Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur Districts of Odisha registered their participation in the event.

(Source: ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar)