World Food Day celebrations at ICAR-CCARI Old Goa
World Food Day celebrations at ICAR-CCARI Old Goa
ICAR-Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Old Goa, organized ‘Rice Field day’ on the occasion of “World Food Day” on Friday 16th October, 2017. Mr. Nelson Figueriedo, Director, Department of Agriculture, Govt of Goa, graced the occasion as the chief guest. Nelson Figueriedo appreciated the efforts of the ICAR Goa in releasing new salt tolerant rice varieties for the state. He also outlined different schemes available for the farmers and requested all the farmers to make use of govt schemes. Dr. E. B. Chakurkar, Director, ICAR-CCARI, Old Goa welcomed the farmers. In his address he urged that farmers to focus on community farming and to go for processing and value addition of agricultural and horticultural produce so that they can get better price in the market. Mr. Sanjeev Mayekar, Project Director, ATMA (North Goa), outlined the different activities and schemes under the ATMA programme. Dr. Manohara, K. K. scientist in plant breeding organized the programme and gave a lecture on ‘New varieties of rice for Goa - Involving farmers in quality seed production’. In his presentation, he highlighted on the new varieties of rice viz., Goa Dhan-1 and Goa Dhan -2, which were released recently by the institute for the coastal saline soils, and also urged farmers to take up cultivation of variety Sabhagidhan in the upland areas. Around 100 participants including farmers and officers from ATMA prgramme of the department of agriculture attended the programme. Later farmers were taken for field visit at the institute demonstration and seed production plots.