To empower women to defeat hunger and to emphasize on the role of women in agricultural development, the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Khordha observed the National Day for Women in Agriculture at the ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) here on Friday
Former Minister Surama Padhi attended the event as the chief guest and later inaugurated a tribal women farmers’ held on the occasion. Director of Fisheries Krishna Mohan and NABARD DGM AP Das joined the meeting as guests of honour. Over 200 tribal farm women from Tangi, Begunia and Bhubaneswar blocks participated.
ICAR-CIFA Director Dr P Jayasankar highlighted the role of ICAR-CIFA during the last 25 years for socio-economic development and empowerment of women, particularly tribal women in different districts through aquaculture practices. He encouraged the participants to get as much as knowledge from the CIFA.
The programme was sponsored by the Tribal Sub-Plan Programme (TSP) of ICAR-CIFA. Notably, there is continuous effort by the ICAR-CIFA for successful development of aquaculture and socio-economic development of the farm women through self-help group (SHGs) approach.