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NAGAON: District Agriculture Department under Assam Project on Agri-business and Rural Transmission, organized a two-day long farmers' awareness-cum-training programme on systematic as well as scientific farming of sali paddy among progressive farmers in the district at the office campus of District Agriculture Officer from Monday and the programme ceremonially concluded on Tuesday.
District Agriculture Officer Tarun Hazarika inaugurated the programme. Over 70 progressive farmers under 13 development blocks in the district participated in the training programme. In his inaugural speech, district agriculture officer Tarun Hazarika laid stress on application of machinaries in sowing seeds saplings, harvesting and processing of the crops and said that applying all those machinaries and tools, farmers of the district could lessen their loads of work and doing so they could increase the quantities of crops in less time.
Scientist from International Paddy Research Centre, Bipin Kumar, crops adviser to Assam Project on Agri-business and Rural Transmission, Dr Arunima Deva Chaudhary, Subdivisional agriculture officers Ranjan Kumar Deka and Premeswar Nath were present in the programme as the resource persons.
During the training-cum-awareness programme, all the resources persons digitally screened how Sali paddy could be cultivated with applying all systematic as well as scientific ways during the season and also highlighted how farmers of the district could increase the quantity by lessening their work load.
Besides, during the programme, the officials of the department concerned also appealed to the farmers of the flood-hit areas to insure their Sali paddy crops with a minimum premium of Rs 100 for one hectare of land on or before July 31.
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