Reports on Capacity Building

ICAR-National Centre for Integrated Pest Management, New Delhi organized two-day National seminar on Contextual Relevance of ITKs in Plant Protection from 28-29 October 2015 in collaboration with ICAR-IARI at Pusa Campus New Delhi.

ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research, New Delhi organized four training programmes were by the on production and value-additional technologies of maize during the ongoing crop season ( 15 September – 30 October 2015).

ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Tripura Centre   organized a ten-day (28 October 2015 to 06 November 2015) short course on integrated farming system approaches for sustainable hill agriculture under changing climatic scenario from under NICRA for the researchers and extension functionaries working in ICAR Institutes/ CAUs/ KVKs/ SAUs and State Departments.

A training programme on Fabrication of square mesh codend in Dol nets was jointly organized by NETFISH and ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin during 28-31 October, 2015 at Arnala, Maharastra.

ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur organized a workshop on development of agriculture in western dry region of the country on 6th November 2015.

ICAR-Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar and Horticulture Society of India, New Delhi  jointly organizied a “National Conference on Temperate Fruits and Nuts- A Way Forward for Enhancing Productivity and Quality” from November 06-09, 2015 at ICAR-CITH, Old Air Field, Rangreth, Srinagar.

15th March, 2016,Jodhpur

One day Awareness-cum-Training Programme on Protection of Plant Varieties & Farmers’ Rights Act (PPV&FRA) for experts of Krishi Vigyan Kendras of Rajasthan and Gujarat has been organised at ICAR- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Jodhpur.

ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Meghalaya organized National Seminar on "Integrating Agri-Horticultural and Allied Research for Food and Nutritional Security in the Era of Global Climate Disruption" during 4-6 march, 2016 at Imphal, Manipur.

8 -17 th February, 2016,  Hisar

International Workshop on ‘Surveillance and Diagnosis of Glanders’ was organized at ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar from 8-17 February 2016.

Aim of the workshop was to provide hands on training in the area of serological diagnosis of glanders like complement fixation test and indirect ELISA and to build network among glanders endemic countries for surveillance of glanders.

16-25th  February, 2016, Hisar

An International workshop on ‘Surveillance and diagnostics for equine influenza’ for delegates from SAARC nations was organized under ‘OIE twinning project on Equine influenza’ at ICAR- National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar from 16-25th  February, 2016.