Varanasi: The two-day training programme on advanced vegetable production and entrepreneurship development, organised for public representatives and farmers at the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), concluded on Friday.A total of 65 participants, including 15 women, and gram pradhans from 8 villages, participated in the programme. During the training, the participants were taken on a visit to the institute’s research fields .In the inaugural session, the institute’s director, Rajesh Kumar, guided the farmers and emphasized the important role of women in agriculture and nutritional security, and encouraged them to become self-reliant through vegetable production. He called upon every farmer family to adopt vegetable production for family nutrition and additional income. Head, vegetable improvement department D P Singh and principal scientist, vegetable protection department Sudarshan Maurya also expressed their views on the occasion.During the training, Sudhanshu Singh of the District Horticulture Department, provided information about various government schemes of the Horticulture Department. The institute’s scientists delivered detailed lectures on protected cultivation, organic vegetable production, integrated disease and pest management (IDM and IPM), grafting technology, and vegetable-based entrepreneurship development.
