Capacity Building Programme on Natural Farming

29^th November 2022, Narendrapur

ICAR-ATARI Kolkata organized a Capacity Building Programme on Natural Farming for West Bengal KVKs today at Sasya Shyamala KVK, RKMVERI, Narendrapur to discuss the implementation of the Project on Out scaling Natural Farming through KVKs,

Swami Shivapurnanandaji Maharaj, Assistant Administrative Head, IRDM, RKMVERI urged to make  innovative models and strategies for agricultural sustainability through natural farming to reduce the cost of cultivation and to help in arresting growing needs for fertilizer and reduce subsidy burden.

Dr. A. K. Singh, Ex-Vice Chancellor BAU, Sabour emphasized  on making efforts to increase farmers' income and food production which should happen within the framework of sustainable management of natural resources to avoid further depletion of water tables, biodiversity and habitat for wild species and land and soil degradation.

Dr. S. K. Roy, Director, ICAR-ATARI Kolkata urged for public environmental awareness and participation to bring about a change in attitude and finally restricting further damage to the environment.

Dr. F. H. Rahman, Nodal Officer, Natural Farming, briefed about the objectives and principles of the natural farming and elaborately described how to conduct different activities of the project.

Dr. N. J. Maitra, DDREF, WBUAFS mentioned about the agro-ecological based diversified farming system and suggested that KVK should identify the farmers and other local stakeholders towards agriculture driven environmental issues.

Publications on Natural Farming were released during the programme.

The Workshop was attended by Heads and Nodal Subject Matter Specialists of 16 KVKs of West Bengal.

(Source: ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute Kolkata)