JORHAT: An impactful awareness programme on the National Certification System for Tissue Culture Raised Plants (NSC-TCP) was organized by DBT-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi in collaboration with the CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat, Assam aiming at disseminating awareness and promoting the advantages of the NCS-TCP programme. This significant event was held in Jorhat on Saturday.
Dr. Subhra Chakraborty, Director, NIPGR and Coordinator, NCS-TCP highlighted the vision and mission and important initiatives of the Institute and provided a comprehensive overview of the NCS-TCP programme and discussed its pivotal role in revolutionizing the agriculture sector through the use of tissue culture raised virus-free and genetically uniform plants. She mentioned that NCS-TCP, a unique quality management programme of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India is playing a key role towards Nurturing Agribusiness by Encouraging Entrepreneurs and Safeguarding Farmers. Further, Dr. Chakraborty said NorthEast India being one of the Agri-Bio-diversity hotspots in the country has enormous potential to develop Entrepreneurship and Industry in the area of Plant Tissue Culture through NCSTCP programme.
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