10th SAC meeting of KVK Phek held

Phek, February 29 (MExN): The 10th Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting of KVK Phek was held at the KVK office in Porba on February 29. The meeting was attended by A. Chakraborty, General Manager, NABARD, Pradip Kumar Hazarika, Lead Bank Manager, Phek and representatives from NGOs and progressive farmers of Phek district.   The action taken report on previous SAC was presented by Dr. RK Singh, Programme Coordinator, KVK Phek. The Annual Report of 2015-2016 was presented by T. Esther Longkumer, ACTO Soil Science and the Annual Action Plan 2016-2017 was presented by Liza Barua Bharali, SMS (Plant Protection).   General Manager of NABARD emphasized on crops which have ready market and also suggested for joint liability group to have basket of activities for better income generation.

  Lead Bank Manager, Phek suggested to have financial literacy camp at KVK by identifying real interested farmers.   Dr. Abhijit Mitra, Director, ICAR-NRC Mithun emphasized on imparting multi disciplinary training to practicing farmers and conducting specific employment generating programmes for rural youths. Programmes may also be taken on Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode to ensure ownership by the participating farmers, he said.