TEZPUR: A three day long celebration of 95th ICAR Foundation Day and Technology Day was held at KVK Sonitpur campus. ICAR celebrated its foundation day on July 16, every year. From this year it has been decided to observe it as the ‘Foundation and Technology Day’. On the very first day, an exhibition on agricultural technologies was inaugurated and farmers from various parts of the district attended the programme.
The in- charge Head, KVK, Sonitpur, Dr. Ranjit Bordoloi, inaugurated the programme and gave a welcome address by encouraging them to go for a more scientific way in agriculture, especially on cluster basis by forming farmer producer companies (FPC). In these three days various programmes related to agricultural technologies were observed. A method demonstration was conducted by Dinku Bora, Subject Matter Specialist (Agronomy) on seedling root dip treatment using liquid phosphate solubilizing bacteria.
The use of phosphate solubilizing bacteria as inoculants can increase Phosphorus intake by the crop plants and thereby increase crop yield. Another technology was showcased on fish smoking by using CIFTEQ fish smoking kiln. Another technology on scientific cultivation of mushroom was also conducted among the participants. Various agricultural machinery such as paddy transplanter, potato grader, drumseeder, reaper, weeder etc. were showcased to create awareness about farm mechanization. In relation to Chief Minister’s Institutional Plantation Programme (CMIPP)” across the State of Assam, a programme on saplings distribution of Mahogony and Segun saplings was conducted and a plantation programme was also organized. All the officials from KVK, Sonitpur and more than 150 farmers who are members of different FPCs and SHGs attended the programme.
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