A three-day western region ‘Agriculture fair-cum-Farmer’s Felicitation Programme’ is going to be held in the city from March 6.
The programme scheduled to be held in the campus of Indira Gandhi Agriculture University (IGAU), Raipur will be recording the presence of progressive farmers, representatives of organisations working in agriculture domain and scientists active in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa along with two Union territories Daman and Diu and Dadar and Nagar Haveli.
On the occasion, farmers from different States are going to share their working experience for development of agriculture sector, officials stated. Moreover, symposium and elaborate discussion of farmers and agriculture scientists would also be held on a series of topics. Exhibition displaying agriculture techniques and crops of participating States would be organised during the event.
The programme will be concluding on March 8 with felicitation of farmers.
Technical session on topics including organic farming, horticulture and protected farming, agriculture-based business (like mushroom, honey bee farming and other) animal husbandry (dairy, poultry, fish-farming and other), processing of forest produce and agriculture products and other, will be hosted for farmers.
Besides, farmers are going to get the opportunity of visiting IGAU’s research farms.
Similarly, the university will display the modern technique of cultivating lentils, oil seeds, medicinal and aromatic plants. Seeds, plants, organic fertilizers, farming equipment and others developed by the university would be displayed.