1st June, 2020, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
The ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Forage Crops and Utilization, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh organized the “Virtual National Group Meeting on Kharif - 2020” today.
In his inaugural address, Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary (DARE) &DG (ICAR) highlighted the need of forage crops technologies for enhancing the farmer’s income and increasing livestock productivity. Appreciating the technologies and varieties developed during the last 3 years, Dr. Mohapatra urged for innovations, technology development, their effective dissemination through demonstrations and use of digital platforms, particularly, in regional languages. The Director General stressed on critical appraisal of schemes and centres’ performance, their need based resource strengthening and reorienting them for achieving the desired outputs. He also urged the ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute (ICAR-IGFRI) and ICAR-AICRP on Forage Crops and Utilization for preparing and submitting the National Fodder Mission Document.
Dr. Tilak Raj Sharma, Deputy Director General (Crop Sciences), ICAR accentuated on pre-breeding by using the diverse gene pools to develop parental lines with resistance to major biotic and abiotic stresses along with high fodder yield. He urged for more active collaboration with related crop Institutes developing comprehensive and adoptable technologies in a synergistic manner. He stressed on the need for cohesive interaction among all the stakeholders, evaluation of germplasm for various traits and careful selection of parents for the breeding programme. Dr. Sharma also highlighted the need of providing seed and planting material of fodder crops, especially, perennial crops to tribals and poor farmers for enhancing fodder production of the country.
Dr. V.K. Yadav, Director, ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh highlighted the various new initiatives being taken by the Institute to augment the fodder resources in the country.
Around 20 Publications including ICAR-AICRP on Forage Crops and Utilization’s Annual Report and 19 Farmers’ Friendly Literatures in regional / national languages were released by the dignitaries during the occasion.
The dignitaries also felicitated the various ICAR-AICRP Forage Centres for developing the varieties and technologies during the last year. The ICAR-AICRP on Forage Crops, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore Centre was awarded the Best Performing Centre Award.
More than 100 participants including the senior officials of ICAR and its Institutes participated in the Webinar.
(Source: ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Forage Crops and Utilization, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh)
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