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Poshan Ma Nutri Garden and Tree Plantation Drive

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Poshan Ma Nutri Garden and Tree Plantation Drive

ICAR- Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nagapattinam organized awreness programme on Poshan Ma – Nutri Garden and Tree Plantation Drive on 17.09.2022 at KVK campus. Dr.A.Gopalakannan, Programme Coordinator welcomed the gathering and gave importance of the Poshan Ma programme. Dr. J.Josphin Amutha, Joint Director of Health and family Welfare, Nagapattinam given special address. She emphasized all the women and pregnant ladies should be taken iron riches food for contain anemia. Awareness programme is being conducted through Integrated Child Development Scheme for curative measures on underweight new born baby and asked the participants to utilize “Vamsam” a mobile app developed by the District administration. Mrs.Selvamani, Block Development Officer, Integrated Child Development Scheme, Nagapattinam delivered key note address. Dr.A.Mathivanan, SMS (Home Science) explained about the role of minor millets in human health. Mr.K.Ragu, SMS (Horticulture) explained about the Nutri vegetables and setting up of Nutri garden. Mr.M.Pommannan, Field Officer, IFFCO explained about the Nano urea technology. In this Programme, Exhibition and tree plantation were conducted. About 120 Farm women, Anganwadi Staff were attended and benefited. Tree saplings and vegetable seed pockets were distributed to all the participants. Subject Matter Specialists Mr.E.Hino Fernando, Dr.K.Chandrasekar, Dr.V.Kannan, Programme Assistants Mr.V.Gnanabharathi, Mr.R.Vedharethinam, Mrs.G.Ramya are attended and made arrangement the programme.

Uzhavar Mugam 2022 & Training program on Organic farming &Traditional Rice Varieties Cultivation

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Uzhavar Mugam 2022 & Training program on Organic farming &Traditional Rice Varieties Cultivation

One day training program Uzhavar Mugam 2022 on Organic farming and Traditional Rice Varieties Cultivation was jointly organized with VAANGHAI trust at KVK, Nagapattinam on 06.09.2022. The program was aimed to create awareness on cultivation and conservation of traditional rice varieties. Dr. A.Gopalakannan, Programme Coordinator, KVK welcomed the participants and given a prelude about the importance of the training program. Dr.V.Wilfred Manuel, Professor Rtd., TNAU as Chief guest and delivered his special address in the program. In his special address, he narrated the history of present varieties released from TNAU and importance of Aathur kitchali samba. During the technical sessions, Dr.R. Pushba, Asst. Professor (Plant breeding and genetics), TRRI, Aduthurai delivered lecture on ‘Kavuni varieties cultivation’. The different type of Kavuni cultures were discussed among the farmers. Dr. P. Balaguru, Associate Prof. Botany, Jamal Mohammed College, Trichy delivered special lecture on GI tagging of Traditional Rice varieties.
Agro ecological pest management was handled by Mr. L. Narayanmoorthy, ADA, Thiruvannamalai followed by Mr. P.Sethuraman, Progressive farmer, Villupuram shared his experience on Traps for pest management. Subject Matter Specialist, Dr.V.Kannan (Agronomy) handled technical session on Organic cultivation of Rice. This training programme provided a good platform for the progressive farmers to conserve and cultivate traditional rice varieties. Totally 37 nos. of participants were attended and benefitted. At the end of the programme Mr. K. Mohanraj Yadhav VAANGHAI trust delivered vote of thanks and distributed Aathur Kitchali samba 2 kgs each to the farmers to encourage cultivation of Traditional Rice varieties.