
Capacity building programme: Climate Smart Agriculture through Crop Diversification and Precision farming
Aug 24, 2023
A capacity building programme on “Climate Smart Agriculture through Crop Diversification and Precision farming” was jointly organized by ICAR-KVK & ICAR-CPCRI on 24th May 2023 in collaboration with Department of Agriculture, Kerala at ICAR-CPCRI. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. K. Balachandra Hebbar, Director, ICAR-CPCRI; in his opening remarks highlighted the importance and relevance of climate resilient agriculture and adoption of climate smart agriculture for mitigate the climate change phenomenon. He stressed on the new pest and disease outbreak correlated with climate change and also highlighted the PMs concept of ‘LiFE, ie Lifestyle for environment’. Smt. K.N Jyothikumari DD-Agriculture (H) chaired the meeting and she briefed the State Horticulture schemes on precision farming for optimum utilization of resources for the district. During the one-day workshop five topics were discussed: Open precision farming, Dr ManojkumarT S, Head-KVK; Fertigation schedule in precision farming for coconut, banana & vegetables by Dr. Benjamin Mathew, SMS-KVK; Management of diseases and pest in coconut, banana & vegetables, Dr Prathbha PS, Sr. Scientist-CPCRI &Climate Smart Soil & water conservation, Sri. K. Manikandan, STO-KVK respectively. The workshop also included a CPCRI farm visit, identification, demonstration of agriculture implements and an active Farmer-Scientist interface with the participating farmers. A total of 26 farmer& farm women and 5 officials participated in the programme.