Participation in the Goa Mango Festival 2014
Participation in the Goa Mango Festival 2014
The Goa Mango Festival 2014 organised by the Directorate of Agriculture was inaugurated on May 13 at Kala Academy, Panaji by the Honourable Governor of Goa, Shri. Bharat Vir Wanchoo, in the presence of Mathew Samuel, Secretary of Agricuture, Dr. Narendra Pratap Singh, Director of this Institute and Shri. P. Tufani, Director, Directorate of Agriculture, Govt. of Goa.
The festival has been organized with an objective to verify the different varieties of mangoes in Goa. The festival has twelve stalls displaying over sixty varieties of mangoes.
The KVK of our Institute has a stall displaying in all 35 local and introduced mango varieties. Pest and disease samples and value added products of mango are also displayed. Demonstrations on mango grafting are shown to interested farmers.