Reports on Capacity Building

 ‘Unless the information and technologies developed in fisheries sector is transferred to needy people across the globe, the entire process of knowledge generation will remain futile’, said the Chief Guest Dr.P.Rajendran, Vice Chancellor, Kerala Agricultural university.

In the backdrop of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s appeal for doubling farmer’s income by 2022, a 10-days short course training programme on “New Frontiers of biotic stress management for doubling the farmer’s income” was inaugurated at ICAR-National institute of Biotic Stress management, Raipur on 11 September, 2017. At the outset, Dr. Anil Dixit, Course Director informed the audience that the Government of India has prepared a blue print on seven point strategies to double farmer’s income by 2022.

ICAR-Central Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai  in association with the Fisheries Technocrats Forum (FTF), Chennai conducted a Farmers Conclave cum Workshop on “Sustainable Livelihood Options in Aquaculture for Rural Population” at Nagapattinam, which is the fisheries and aquaculture hub of Tamil Nadu, on 19th August 2017.

A 6-days training programme on “Manufacture of jute Handicrafts” under Agri Business Incubation (ABI) Project, ICAR-NIRJAFT, Kolkata was inaugurated at KVK, Mayurbhanj-I, Odisha on August 21, 2017.

ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal in collaboration with ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, organized a brainstorming session on amelioration of acid soils of eastern India on 11th August, 2017 at ICAR-NBSS&LUP, Kolkata.

ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal organized a nutritional mela on 11th August 2017 at Government Home Science PG College, Hoshangabad.  ICAR-CIAE has developed many technologies for use of soybean as protein-calorie supplement in the regular diet of people of vegetarian diet pattern.  These technol

Tuticorin Research Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute organised a one-day training programme on ‘Identification of marine fauna with special reference to Endangered, Threatened and Protected Species (ETPs)’ to the post-graduate students from different colleges in and around Thoothukudi district on 8th August 2017.

One-day technical seminar on ‘Feed and fertility management in dairy animals’ was organized at ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bengaluru on 5th August 2017.

Two-day Training on Production Technology of Kharif Oilseeds (8-9th August 2017) for Nodal Officers of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) of Rajasthan and Haryana under National Mission on Oilseed and Oil palm (NMOOP) was inaugurated at ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI), Jodhpur (Rajasthan) on 8th August 2017.

A five-day Special National Training Programme on "Advancement of Seed Testing" was inaugurated at ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Manipur Centre, Imphal on 7th August, 2017. The aim of the training programme is to impart advance knowledge in the field of seed testing to the participants.

The training was inaugurated by Shri Y. Joykumar Singh, Deputy Chief Minister of Manipur as Chief Guest. Dr. Suhel Akhtar, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Manipur; Er. M. G. Viswakarma, NSRTC, Varanasi graced the event as Guests of Honour.