5th April 2025, Hazaribag
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, organised a Scientist-Farmer Interface Meeting today at the institute campus in Gauria Karma, Barhi, Hazaribag.
Dr. Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Director and Vice-Chancellor, ICAR-IARI, emphasized the importance of expanding the project's reach to benefit more people across additional districts and neighboring states. He highlighted the need to prioritize farm women by offering training and support in kitchen gardening to help meet their families' nutritional needs. At the community level, he recommended forming women’s self-help groups and conducting training programmes to promote household-level entrepreneurship. Dr. Rao also stressed the importance of cultivating millets, pulses, and horticultural crops, and assured the provision of quality seeds for key crops.
The Guest of Honor, Dr. C. Viswanathan, Joint Director (Research), urged the farmers to adopt new and improved technologies developed by various ICAR institutions and establish an effective linkage with the scientists to aware and update their farming knowledge and training.
A total of 110 farmers, including 86 women and 24 men, along with 34 representatives from FPOs and agriculture-focused NGOs, and 28 scientists from the institute, participated in the event. The attendees represented 18 villages across 10 blocks of Hazaribag district, with additional participants from the neighboring districts of Chatra, Koderma, and Ramgarh.
Feedback from Scheduled Caste farmers in Hazaribag highlighted significant cost savings and increased crop yields, attributed to the institute’s free provision of quality seeds for Rabi, Kharif, and summer crops, horticultural planting materials, farm tools, and technical training.
(Source: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Hazaribag, Jharkhand)
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