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NAGAON: For the first time in the district, the Directorate of Horticulture and Food Processing, Khanapara, Assam, in association with the district agriculture department, Nagaon and Assam Project on Agri-business and Rural Transmission (APART), organized an exhibition on grafting technology in vegetables at Sensuwa nursery on the outskirts of the town under Khagorijan agriculture development circle on Thursday.
Besides, a training camp on grafting technology among the farmers was also ceremonially inaugurated there. Additional Deputy Commissioner, Nagaon, Bijita Deka, district agriculture officer Tarun Hazarika, nodal officer and district coordinator to APART - Bhadra Bora and Santanu Kalita respectively graced the occasion. The executive officer of world vegetables' association, Sudipta Das and district environment coordinator Arpita Bora also participated in the inaugural ceremony.
During the training programme, Dr Ravi Shankar Monikam, specialist in nursery culture at the Hyderabad-based South East Asia Centre of World Vegetables Association, provided the training to the participants as well as agri-based entrepreneurs of the district. Sanjeev Rathore, specialist of ETC Consultant India Pvt Limited, Sagar Pemuda, chief executive officer of Versatile Agro First FPC, MD Bilash Bidgar and Harichand Pemuda and other 20 nursery farmers, traders as well as developers from the district participated in the training programme.
During the programme, the participants were trained on how vegetables like tomato could be cultivated in the rainy season by applying the grafting technology. It is expected that this grafting technology in vegetable production would boost the production even in the challenging weather during the rainy season.
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