One Day PGR awareness camp on promotion and conservation of traditional crops organized at Tabo District Lahual & Spiti of Himachal Pradesh on 5th November 2019

One day PGR awareness camp on promotion and conservation of traditional crops was organized on 5th November 2019 at Tabo District Lahual & Spiti of Himachal Pradesh in collaboration with Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Taboo-II, Lahual & Spiti Himachal Pradesh. A total of 250 tribal farmers of valley attended this awareness camp. The prime aim of this programme was to bring awareness among farming community on the benefits of plant genetic resources including crop landraces which are being maintained by the farmers and facilitating registration of Farmers’ Varieties. Dr. Kuldeep Singh, Director ICAR-NBPGR was the chief guest. Dr Sudhir Verma, Programme Co-ordinator of KVK welcomed dignitaries and participants. Dr Mohar Singh, Principal Scientist of NBPGR Shimla mentioned about the significance of traditional crops under changing climate scenario. The chief guest Dr Kuldeep Singh has also emphasized the use of traditional crops and registration of these local landraces through PPV&FRA. In this programme, farmer kits containing Secateurs and literature distributed to each farmer. At the end, interactive session was arranged and all questions raised by the farmers were replied upto their satisfaction. The programme was ended with the vote of thanks followed by lunch arranged to all farmers.

(Source:  Sh. Dayal Singh, ICAR-NBPGR, Regional Station Shimla)