A one day workshop on “Development of Road Map for Agricultural Development in West Coast Plains and Ghats Agro Climatic Zone”
A one day workshop on “Development of Road Map for Agricultural Development in West Coast Plains and Ghats Agro Climatic Zone”
A one day workshop on “Development of Road Map for Agricultural Development in West Coast Plains and Ghats Agro Climatic Zone” was organised at ICAR-CCARI on 16th October, 2015. Dr. K. K Singh (ADG (F. Engg.) was the Chairman and Dr. Sreenath Dixit, (Director, ATARI) and Dr. NP Singh (Director, ICAR-CCARI) were the co-ordinators of the one day workshop. About 85 participants from ICAR organisations, SAUs, KVKs, Developmental departments like Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries and progressive farmers attended and shared their suggestions for the development of agriculture in the concerned agro-ecological region. There were deliberations from all the participants with recommendations on technologies, farming practices and processing and value addition of various crops, animal and fishery components. The workshop has come out with brief region specific recommendations for the development of agriculture in the West Coast Plains and Ghats Agro Climatic Zone. The edited and refined recommendations from the workshop will be communicated to ICAR and it will be forwarded to Prime Minister’s Office through Director General, ICAR. This will be further considered for the development of region specific actions for the agricultural development.