Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 1: Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) today celebrated its foundation day with great enthusiasm.
In the foundation day lecture entitled “Future of Hill Farming and Farmers in a Hot, Flat and Crowded World”, Professor Tej partap, Vice Chancellor, SKUAST, made a spell bound presentation about the disintegrating, once integrated, farming by the hill farmers. The disintegration was a consequence of combination of factors; the global changes occurring with great impact on every one’s life across the world as well as the local circumstances, he added.
He said for innovations to improve farming based hill livelihoods, both institutional and technological, it is no longer possible to view the local change processes in isolation.
He also talked about the issue of crowded world as felt by the hill farmers as the core problem of increasingly inadequate farmland crisis.
He said that the new circumstances created by global warming induced local climate changes across the hills/mountains of Indian Himalayas are already being felt by farming communities.
Earlier Dr Ram Vishwakarma, Director IIIM Jammu, eulogized the work done by Professor Tej Partap in mountain development and climate change. A new variety of cymbopogon namely Himrosa was also released on this occasion, which was a dedicated fieldwork of Dr Suresh Chandra and his team.
On the occasion, competitions were held among various disciplines in indoor and outdoor games and winners were awarded by the chief guest. At the end, Dr R K Raina Chief Scientist IIIM presented the vote of thanks.
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