Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 11 : One day awareness cum training programme on' Integrated Insect-Pest for vegetable crops' was organized by Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology at Village Mishriwalla (village Pandorian) here today. According to press release, the training programme organized in collaboration with Directorate of Agriculture, Jammu whereas the programme funded under under NABARD funded project entitled "Scientific intervention for validation and popularization of traps for management of insect pests in vegetable growing areas of Jammu Region".
More than 50 farmers from Mishriwalla participated in this awareness cum training programme. Dr. Devinder Sharma, Principal Investigator of the project emphasized the need to adopt the preventive and scientific methods to manage insect-pests of vegetable crops.
He also motivated the farmers to visit SKUAST-J Kisan Mela on March 18 and 19, 2016. Dr. A.K. Singh, Co-PI of the project also emphasised that through the use of eco-friendly trap based methods in brinjal, tomato and cucurbits the pesticide load on these crops will be reduced. |
