Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 27: For the first time in J&K State, Agrometeorological Section of SKUAST-Jammu is organizing a three-day working group meeting on AICRP in collaboration with CRIDA, Hyderabad.
The three-day mega event began today and Prof P K Sharma, Vice Chancellor, SKUAST-Jammu, was chief guest in the inaugural session. In his address, the Vice-Chancellor stressed upon importance of agrometeorology under changing climate. He explained that Agriculture plays a key role in overall economic and social well being of India.
Dr K Sammi Reddy, Acting Director, CRIDA and Dr.S K. Dhyani were the guests of honour on the occasion. Subject expert Dr Y S Ramakrishna, former Director, ICAR, CRIDA and Dr M K Khushu, former, Head & Prof Agromet Section, SKUAST-Jammu were felicitated by the Vice Chancellor for their significance contributions in the field of Agrometeorology.
Project Coordinator, Dr P Vijaya Kumar listed the objectives of workshop in detail. He informed that decline in the share of agriculture in GDP was not commensurate with the fall in dependency in agriculture. Such trends have resulted in fragmentation and decline in the size of land holdings which leads to agronomic inefficiency, a rise in unemployment, a low volume of marketable surplus. These factors could contribute to increase vulnerability to global environmental change, he added.
Director Research of SKUAST- Jammu & Convener of this Group Meeting, Prof J P Sharma welcomed the delegates from all over the India while Dr Mahender Singh, Sr Scientist & I/C Agrometeorology presented vote of thanks.
Dr Ravindra Chary, Project Coordinator, AICRP for Dry Land Agriculture, CRIDA Hyderabad, Dr M B Nagdeve, Chief Scientist from Akola Maharashtra, Dr I S Katageri, Associate Director Research RARS, Vijayapura, Karnataka, Prof G K Das, Head Agromet, Raipur, Chhatisghar and Dr Joydeep Mukherji from IARI, New Delhi, were also present on the occasion.
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