If plans are meant to be executed, a number of agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry experts are soon going to find themselves preparing plans for BAU. Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma has asked Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) officials on Thursday to take suggestions from experts to make fisheries, horticulture, animal husbandry, poultry, and seed production departments of the university more productive and competent.
During review meeting of the university, Verma said that work plan will be made for overall development of BAU. She asked the officials to come up with proposal against vacancies in all the departments, so that the recruitments could be done on time and decisions could be taken on higher level to promote agriculture based education.
Apart from VC and Agriculture Secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni and Director (Administration) Saritas, officials including Dean Dr. ZA Haider, Dr. RP Singh, Dr. DK Drone, Dr. SK Roy and many others were present in the meeting.
Verma said that fisheries, horticulture, animal husbandry, poultry, and seed production needed to be increased. She also said that maximum students should be considered for diploma, PG and certificate course in agriculture, zoology, animal husbandry and biology.
She focused on the importance of rural people being prioritized in these fields. She directed to study the work culture of various education related institutions to ascertain which courses could be run to benefit maximum people.
laying stress on coordinating with JPSC for filling up the vacancies, the CS said that work plan should be made for ARYA and KVK members; simultaneously, plan should be made for forming 10 KVKs.
She also said to prepare an estimation report on the output of each KVK. She laid stress on farming of horse radish and telling people about the benefits of this vegetable. She told that 5-6 thousand foundation seeds had been prepared against 15,000 quintal required. She also appeared concerned with the fact that seed was being produced on merely 270 hectare of land against required area of 880 hectare.
The CS directed to profile KVKs as to where and how much seed can be produced. She directed to make seed development plant in Goriakarma and said to make work plan for seed science and technology sot that the state could be made self sufficient in seed production.