The GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar is going to organise the annual All India Farmer Fair and agro industry exhibition at its campus this year from October 5, 2014.
The main focus of this annual fair will be on highlighting the state-of-the-art techniques of farming and encouraging the farmers to adopt new and scientific methods of farming, as the scientists of the GBPUAT, Pantnagar said. More importantly, good quality seeds and plants of the upcoming rabi crop will also be made available to the farmers in this farmer fair, said Dr. YPS Dabas, Director, Extension Education, GBPUAT, Pantnagar.
Apart from that, different colleges of the GBPUAT and agricultural institutions of national level will also set up their stalls in this annual farmer fair cum exhibition at Pantnagar university campus to make the farmers aware about the latest developments that have taken place in the agricultural sector, further said Dabas. At the same time progressive farmers particularly those who are interested in taking agriculture loan may get necessary information about how to avail the loan schemes in this fair as experts from different nationalised banks and insurance companies are also joining this farmers’ fair to give necessary information about the loan schemes to the farmers, said the officials concerned of the GBPUAT, Pantnagar.
This is the 96th annual farmer’ fair which is going to be organised from October 5, 2014 and will continue till October 8, 2014 informed the officials concerned of the GBPUAT, Pantnagar. “Meanwhile, we have appealed to the farmers to take part in this fair in maximum number and make the most of this fair cum exhibition,” the official concerned added.
In order to provide proper transport facility to the participants the GBPUAT administration has also decided to make available transport services for farmers and participants from the nearest Haldi railway station to the farmer fair site at the university campus at Pantnagar. To get more information about this annual farmer fair, the farmers may also talk to the officials concerned of the Pantnagar university on phone numbers i.e. 05944-233336 and 05944-234486, the officials concerned said. More importantly, the participants may also get necessary details about this fair from the Pantnagr university website- www.gbpuat.ac.in, they added.