Farmers' training programme at Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Hisar: Scientists of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (HAU), Hisar organised a one-day farmer training programme in Chirod village of the district under the ongoing Farmer First project in the Directorate of Extension Education. About 85 farmers of the village participated in the programme. Dr RS Sheoran working in the project gave tips to the farmers about the production of fodder crops of the Rabi season. He advised the farmers to sow high harvest varieties of oats so that there was continuous availability of green fodder. The farmers were distributed HJ 8 varieties of oats seeds on this occasion.

Training for farmers, rural women

Hisar: The Saina Nehwal Institute of Agricultural Technology, Training and Education of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (HAU), Hisar, Haryana, will be organising various trainings. Co-Director (Training) of the Institute, Dr Ashok Godara said the training of production and marketing of milk and its products will be held on November 15, training on nursery production for vegetable crops will be on November 22, training on cutting and tailoring will be organised on November 22 and training on beekeeping will be held on November 24. He said this training would be organised for all sections, including farmers, youth and rural women.

Faculty members of MDU shine

Rohtak: Four faculty members of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) have featured in the list of top 2 per cent international scientist list ‘Updated Science-wide database of Stanford Citation Indicatiors’ released by the Stanford University of USA. This list has been published by Elsevier B V on October 19. The four faculty members who feature in this prestigious global list are -Prof Narsimhan B (department of pharmaceutical sciences, in the field of medicinal & biomolecular chemistry), Dr Sarvajeet S Gill (centre for biotechnology, in the field of plant biology & botany), retired professor (biochemistry) and formerly professor emeritus Dr CS Pundhir in the field of biotechnology, and Prof Pratyoosh Shukla (department of microbiology, in the field of biotechnology). The scientists selected for this prestigious list has been from a pool of top 1,00,000 scientists with a percentile rank of 2 per cent and above. MDU Vice Chancellor Prof Rajbir Singh has congratulated the faculty members for their outstanding research contribution and glorious achievements.

Seeds of vegetables distributed

Karnal: Maharana Pratap Horticulture University (MHU) organised a one-day training programme for the production of quality nursery of vegetables in poly-house at its Anjanthali farm. Dr RK Goel, director research, was the chief guest, who thanked Dr Samar Singh, VC, and said to feed the increasing population there was a need to produce more vegetables. He stressed on the hi-tech poly-house farming and said with the help of this technology, vegetables could be produced even in off season. Meanwhile, seed of vegetables have been distributed among 50 farmers free of cost.