ICAR-CCARI organized ‘Rice Field Day’ at Cotigao village
ICAR-CCARI organized ‘Rice Field Day’ at Cotigao village
ICAR-CCARI organized ‘Rice field day’ at Cotigao village in Canacona taluka of South Goa district on 23rd October 2017. The main objective of the field day was to appraise famers about the newly introduced upland rice variety Sabhagidhan. Earlier in July month, seeds of Sabhagidhan were distributed to farmers through ICAR seed project to take up front line demonstrations (FLDs) cum participatory seed production. An area of 6 ha was covered under FLDs in both Gaodongrem and Cotigao villages of South Goa. During the field day, farmers were taken through the FLD field’s and were informed about the benefit of growing Sabhagidhan under upland (morod) conditions.
Later small interaction meeting was arranged with the farmers. Dr. E. B. Chakurkar, director ICAR-CCARI, speaking on the occasion, briefed the farmers about the different technologies available at ICAR-CCARI and informed them to come forward to make use of such technologies for their increased income and better livelihood. He also encouraged the farmers to go for taking up seed production in agricultural and horticultural crops. Shri. Babu Narhari Komarapant, progressive farmer and RAC farmer representative of ICAR-CCARI, urged farmers to take up various other allied activities along with the regular rice farming for better income. Dr. Manohara, K.K. Scientist in plant breeding, briefed farmers about the new variety Sabhagidhan and its advantage over the traditionally grown varieties like Jaya, Jyothi and Karjat-3. He also informed the success of earlier FLDs on Sabhagidhan in the neighboring villages. Shri. Daya Gaonkar, sarpanch of Cotigao village along with Dhillan Velip has taken lead in organizing the field day.