ICAR-CIWA celebrates Mahila Kisan Diwas - 2020

15^th October, 2020, Bhubaneswar

The ICAR-Central Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar virtually celebrated the “Mahila Kisan Diwas” today.

The Chief Guest, Dr. R.C. Agrawal, Deputy Director General (Agricultural Education), ICAR, highlighted about the progressive women farmers’ contributions in conserving the agro-biodiversity.

The Guest of Honor, Dr. P.S. Pandey, ADG (EP&HS), ICAR stressed on utilizing the local resources focusing on Vocal for Local theme. He suggested celebrating the programme in a bigger way creating the opportunities for participation of large number of women farmers for sharing their experiences to enlighten the other women farmers.

The Guest Speaker, Dr. Vijaya Khader, Former Dean, Faculty of Home Science, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad highlighted the three major roles of women as productive role, service role and nurturing role which are being ignored and not recognized in the society as women farmers. She emphasized for the importance of scientific intervention through continuous training and orientation programme for empowerment of women farmers.

Shri Aditya Kumar Nayak, Director (Head Quarters), Government of India, Department of Post Office, Bhubaneswar outlined the various postal schemes aimed at benefiting the women.

Dr. S.K. Srivastava, Director, ICAR-CIWA, Bhubaneswar urged the women farmers to develop themselves as entrepreneurs for making the agriculture more profitable and making India Atmanirbhar.

Earlier, in her welcome address, Dr. Lipi Das, Principal Scientist and Nodal Officer, Mahila Kisan Diwas highlighted the major contributions of the farm women in agriculture and importance of their role in achieving the food security and eradicating rural poverty.

The Progressive Women Farmers from Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh participated in the event.

About 100 participants including scientists, technical and administrative staffs and farm women from the different states virtually attended the programme.

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