Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Dinesh Oraon has stressed on bringing all the technologies of agriculture and allied activities under Single Window System (SWS) for easy and continued access of farmers. He also suggested to get Animal husbandry, horticulture, poultry, fishery, forestry, lac cultivation integrated into the farming system to meet the challenges of climate change and ensure sustainable production and income to the farming community, he added.
Addressing the concluding function of three-day Agrotech 2017 Kisan Mela at Birsa Agricultural University on Wednesday (March 22), he said the farm technologies developed in other states needed to be modified after proper suitability testing in this state so that Jharkhand farmers could reap the benefits of those echnologies also. He also distributed awards to the best entries of horticulture show, animal-bird show and the stalls adjudged as the best under different categories.
Mandar MlA Gangotri Kujur sought farmer status to the women, as most of the farming operations were performed by them. “Scientists should also devise strategies to improve the socio-economic conditions of women engaged in farming,” she added. BAU Vice Chancellor Dr Parvinder Kaushal said Kisan Mela was the best medium to apprise the farmers of the modern farming technologies. They got technical solution of their farming related problems from scientists on this forum, he added.The Kanke based Indian Institute of legal Meteorology bagged maximum 25 prizes including 14 first prizes at the Horticulture Show organized on the occasion. Anantlal Mahto, a farmer of Pithori finished second with 7 prizes while Parvatiya Durgam Shiksha Vikas, a Ranchi based NGO remained third with 5 prizes. Over 1500 entries of fruits, vegetables, flowers, aromatic and medicinal plants, spices and processed products of horticultural crops were received at the show out of which 45 were awarded under different categories.
In the Animal-Bird Show, Rameshwar Sahu and Wasim Ansari bagged prist prizes in desi cow and improved cow category. Stall of Forestry Faculty was declared the best. Stalls of Department of Agricultural Engineering, Department of Animal Product Technology and Department of Agronomy remained second, third and fourth respectively. Among NGOs, Vikas Bharti, Gumla, Rama Krishna Mission, Ranchi and Holy Cross, Hazaribag were adjudged first, second and third respectively.