As a part of the "Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav"celebration on the 75th year of India's Independence, Quality and Productivity Improvement division of ICAR-IINRG, Ranchi,in collaboration with the JASCOLAMPF, Ranchi organized a three-day workshop at the institute Campus from June 21 to 23.
In the valedictory season Dr K K Sharma, Director ICAR-IINRG highlighted the importance of summer sustainability in rangeeni lac to make India export leader in lac sector. Dr Soumen Ghosal emphasized on fertilizer and prunning management to raise healthy lac host plants. Dr Achintya Pramanik emphasized on intregrated disease and pest management to reduce the incidence of lac insect natural enemy in the field. Dr N.K. Sinha addressed the progressive lac growers and advised them to follow scientific lac hot nursery raisingto achieve better production. The technical sessions were followed by on-farm demonstrations about the Rangeeni lac management duringthe summer season at institute research farm. In the discussions held, farmers showed interest in adopting modern cultivation practices for summer lac cultivation after seeing on-field demonstrations and appreciated it. Farmer's queries regarding pruning activities, host selection and adoption of newer plants like F.semialata and Caliandra were solved by scientists. Seedlings of busy host plants were also distributed to the farmers.
The programme was graced by Dr K K Sharma, Director ICAR-IINRG, Dr N.K. Sinha, Head QPI Division, Dr Soumen Ghosal, Principal Scientist, Dr Achintya Pramanik, Scientist and other institute officials. The program was also attended by 100 Progressive lac farmers from ten Cooperative Societies distributed in Ranchi, Khunti, Saraikela, Kharsawan and Hazaribagh districts.