Students attend an orientation programme in farming at Kerala Agricultural University, Mannuthy, on Wednesday.
Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) celebrated this
year’s Farmers Day with a different set of stakeholders. Those who
attended the orientation and training in agricultural practices on
Wednesday were students from different schools, and the trainers
included farm scientists and farmers.
The orientation
began with an interaction with KAU Vice Chancellor P. Rajendran, who
inaugurated the event. The Vice Chancellor, explaining the nuances of
plant science and food chain in simplest terms, recalled his student
days when they were close with nature and used to involve in farming.
Food security
Director
of Extension S. Estelita, in her presidential address, said that
youngsters had wooed to farming and farm science so as to ensure food
and nutritional security to future generations.
The
schoolchildren were imparted lessons in pulses cultivation, preparation
of delicacies with pulse varieties and hands on training in grafting.
Source : The Hindu
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