After watching the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address on Friday Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Vice Chancellor, Omkar Nath Singh said that the programme was an inspirational dialogue for the farmers of Jharkhand.
Singh said that agriculture risk is high in Jharkhand and the main reason for this is out of total there is 80 percent small and medium farmers, one rain-fed crop and limited irrigation resources.
"Apart from farming, these abundance farmers need to adopt profitable agricultural enterprises. Farmers of the State need to adopt modern techniques like agricultural diversification, integrated farming system, organic farming, drip irrigation, micro irrigation. University scientists have developed many techniques. Farmers of the State can achieve success in agriculture under the guidance of university scientists," said Singh.
Following the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) instructions and under the guidance of the Vice Chancellor the broadcast was heard by officials, teachers, scientists and farmers in the faculties, colleges, regional research centers and agricultural science centers of BAU.
About three and a half thousand farmers through 16 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) and three regional research centers run by the university watched the programme. The programme saw a lot of enthusiasm among KVK and ZRS scientists and farmers. Scientists and farmers saw this as an opportunity to gain direct knowledge of the changes coming in agriculture.
In the programme, about seven hundred students of four agricultural colleges, one horticulture and one agricultural engineering college of the Faculty of Agriculture also registered and watched this live broadcast.
The students described the dialogue between the PM and the farmers as very useful for agricultural service work.
The main program was organised by the Directorate of Extension Education in the RAC auditorium of the University where along with the Vice Chancellor, the Dean, Director, Scientist and Teachers of the University listened to the dialogue of the PM and the farmers.
Dean Agriculture, MS Yadav said that the dialogue gave an opportunity to know about the changes happening in the agriculture sector in the Country and the improvement in agricultural operations through Kisan Credit Card, Crop Insurance Scheme and Agricultural Credit.
Director Research Abdul Wadud said that the PM’s dialogue shows the importance of modern technologies in agriculture.
The farmers of the state can take advantage of the research techniques of the university., he added.
On the occasion, MH Siddiqui, Jagarnath Uraon, MK Gupta, S Karmakar, Krishna Prasad, Rakesh Kumar and Bandhanu Uraon were also present along with faculty scientists and teachers.
The Prime Minister and farmers of different states of the Country discussed on the success in agriculture, benefits of agricultural schemes and held dialogue on the problem.