Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Empowering tribal women farmers through largest agriculture university in Madhya Preadesh@ JEEVIKA Umariya


19th March 2013: Today, JEEVIKA pali ( Umariya, Madhya Pradesh) team has visited the JNKVV (Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur. For more on this log on to http://www.jnkvv.nic.in/. JNKVV is the largest agriculture university in Madhya Pradesh ) campus to see various scientific method of Agriculture on farm as well as organic farming technology.

So, first of all, we have visited the Director of Extension, where Dr. Y.N.Sharma give information in detail about organic farming and after that visited the Medicinal and Aromatics garden where we see thousands of medicinal and aromatic plant species which are very important uses in daily routine life, after that we go to Breeding farm, there Dr. S. K. Rao give information to didi (tribal women) about how to produce self seed and methods of hybrid seed production of paddy, gram, wheat and lentil and give information about use of hybrid and improved seed and there benefit.

After that we have visited the fisheries farm where Dr. Mahajan suggested to didis that how fisheries along with agriculture is beneficial to the farmer and how it will increase our income and reduce the risk in agriculture.

In the afternoon we visited the horticulture farm where we see the live demonstration of intercultural cropping system, mix crop and vegetable production in green houses and poly houses and last in evening we visited vegetable farm where we see insect and disease management in crop like chilly, brinjal ,tomato etc. by organic methods and by the using organic manure like vermin compost, culture and how production can in increase.

In this whole day visit didis ( tribal women’s from villages) are very inquisitive and ask there queries without hesitation and participated very actively and are very happy.

Soon we would signing an MoU with JNKVV to support JEEVIKA project on regular basis!

By JEEVIKA JDSS Jabalpur team while travelling from Jabalpur to Umariya ( night 10.30 pm)

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