Visit of Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Government of India, to ICAR-KVK Uttara Kananda. Shri Anant Kumar Hegde, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India visited KVK, Uttara Kannada, Sirsi on 01.07.2018 to monitor the activities of ICAR-KVK Uttara Kananda during 2016-17 & 2017-18. Dr. V.I.Benagi, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, UAS Dharwad, Dr. R. R. Patil, Director of Extension, UAS, Dharwad, Dr. B.B.Channappa Gowdar, Associate Director of Extesnion, UAS, Dharwad, Dr. K. N. Jagadeesh, Dean, College of Forestry, Sirsi, Dr. B. T. Rayadu, Principal Scientist, ATARI Zone-XI, Bengaluru, Dr. P.S.Hugar, Professor and Technical Officer of VC, UAS, Dharwad were also present and guided the KVK team to organize the event. Meeting started with welcome followed by power point presentation about the progress of KVK activities during the evaluation period of two years from 2016-17 to 2017-18 by Dr. Manju M. J, Senior Scientist & Head, KVK Sirsi. While discussing the progress during the meeting, the Hon’ble Union Minister has suggested many technological interventions to be implemented for the benefit of farming community of the district, some to name are : introduction super food crops like teff, chia, buck wheat etc., value addition and processing of green pepper, introduction Udhyam variety of Banana released by NRC Banana, Tamilnadu, Multi usage trees like ylang-ylang, aromatic plants like palm rosa, lemon grass on commercial scale. Etc., He also stressed upon establishment of honey adulteration testing laboratory in KVK. Minister also interacted with farmers Shri. Ganapathi R Bhat, Karwa Honnavar, Shri. Prasad Rama Hegde, Kanakodlu, Yellapur, Shri. Hanumantappa Madlur, Kapageri, Sirsi, Shri. Ramesh Hegde, Kanakod, Sirsi and Smt. Asha Devaray Naik, Bole, Ankola and noted their request. The Hon’ble minister also advised that new areas of crop diversification like lac, dragon fruit, vetiver etc may be introduced in Uttara Kannada district for boosting the income of farmers. Meeting concluded with the vote of thanks by Dr. R.R.Patil, Director of Extension, UAS Dharwad. A view of meeting Chaired by Hon’ble minister
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Visit of Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Government of India, to ICAR-KVK Uttara Kananda.
Shri Anant Kumar Hegde, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India visited KVK, Uttara Kannada, Sirsi on 01.07.2018 to monitor the activities of ICAR-KVK Uttara Kananda during 2016-17 & 2017-18. Dr. V.I.Benagi, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, UAS Dharwad, Dr. R. R. Patil, Director of Extension, UAS, Dharwad, Dr. B.B.Channappa Gowdar, Associate Director of Extesnion, UAS, Dharwad, Dr. K. N. Jagadeesh, Dean, College of Forestry, Sirsi, Dr. B. T. Rayadu, Principal Scientist, ATARI Zone-XI, Bengaluru, Dr. P.S.Hugar, Professor and Technical Officer of VC, UAS, Dharwad were also present and guided the KVK team to organize the event.
Meeting started with welcome followed by power point presentation about the progress of KVK activities during the evaluation period of two years from 2016-17 to 2017-18 by Dr. Manju M. J, Senior Scientist & Head, KVK Sirsi. While discussing the progress during the meeting, the Hon’ble Union Minister has suggested many technological interventions to be implemented for the benefit of farming community of the district, some to name are : introduction super food crops like teff, chia, buck wheat etc., value addition and processing of green pepper, introduction Udhyam variety of Banana released by NRC Banana, Tamilnadu, Multi usage trees like ylang-ylang, aromatic plants like palm rosa, lemon grass on commercial scale. Etc.,
He also stressed upon establishment of honey adulteration testing laboratory in KVK.
Minister also interacted with farmers Shri. Ganapathi R Bhat, Karwa Honnavar, Shri. Prasad Rama Hegde, Kanakodlu, Yellapur, Shri. Hanumantappa Madlur, Kapageri, Sirsi, Shri. Ramesh Hegde, Kanakod, Sirsi and Smt. Asha Devaray Naik, Bole, Ankola and noted their request.
The Hon’ble minister also advised that new areas of crop diversification like lac, dragon
fruit, vetiver etc may be introduced in Uttara Kannada district for boosting the income of
farmers.
Meeting concluded with the vote of thanks by Dr. R.R.Patil, Director of Extension, UAS Dharwad.