Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 29: The eight- days Model Training Course (MTC) on “Agribusiness Development Planning and Management” concluded today at Division of Agricultural Economics and ABM, SKUAST-Jammu.
The training was attended by officers of the Agriculture, Horticulture, Marketing and allied departments of J&K, Haryana and Bihar. The experts from different prestigious institutes of the country were invited to deliver their valuable lectures on different aspects of Agribusiness Development Planning and Management.
In the valedictory function, the chief guest was Prof K S Risam, Vice Chancellor SKUAST-Jammu, who suggested that agripreneurship and agribusiness should be encouraged at the level of input supply, production, processing and packaging. He also suggested the participants to execute the knowledge acquired during the training programme at field level as it is their turn now.
Dr R K Gupta, Director Research, stressed to make farmer aware about the marketing of the commodities. Dr D P Abrol, Dean, FoA, advocated to organize such type of trainings in future also so that the officers working at field level can timely disseminate updated information to the farmers. The trainees were very much satisfied with the course contents and training material provided by the experts.
Earlier, Prof Jyoti Kachroo, Convener MTC and Head of the Division, highlighted the areas and lectures delivered during the eight days training programme. Dr Anil Bhat, Course Director of the training programme presented the detailed report of the MTC and also informed the house about the important observations and various recommendations put forth which will help regarding the Agribusiness Development Planning and Management in J&K.
The programme was also attended by Dr T A S Ganai, Director Education; Dr Deepak Kher, Director Planning; Dr S E H Rizvi, Dean, F B Sc.; Rajesh Talwar, Registrar and Comptroller; Dr Sudhakar Dwivedi, Dr S P Singh, Dr M Iqbal Bhat, Ashish Isher, Sabbey Sharma and Malika Sharma. Vote of thanks was presented by Dr Anil Bhat, Course Director-MTC. Proceedings of the programme were conducted by Ashish Isher (Assistant Professor).
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