Aditya Vikram Singh/Prayagraj:
At a time when the National Capital New Delhi and the NCR- national capital region, are witnessing nationwide protests and agitations over three controversial farm bills that include MSP and contract farming, and small and marginalised peasants from different parts of the country have gathered on Delhi/Noida borders to express their solidarity with the agitating farmers, particularly from Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, a motley group of farmers of far-flung Nari Bari area in Prayagraj district, bordering Madhya Pradesh, the other day, was imparted training for innovative agricultural technologies and practices. The agricultural training programme was organized by Rotary Allahabad Midtown organized which held the ‘AGRI MEET 2020’.
The Rotary Allahabad Midtown under it’s RCC ie Rotary Community Corps project organized AGRI MEET 2020, in which 20 farmers of Nari Bari were made aware of and were trained for the best agricultural techniques and practices.
Major objective of this seminar cum training program was to create awareness among the rural farmers for innovations in agriculture technologies for better cereal production and crop management, and various government schemes encouraging farming and agriculture.
In the project, chief guest and trainer, Dr Daya Shankar Srivastava, who is an Agricultural Scientist, demonstrated to the farmers about the novel methods of plant protection, food conservation, bio fertilisers and bio pesticides.
Club President Dr. Divya Bartaria envisaged to work for the rural and sustainable development focussing upon Vocational Training, Skill Development, Agricultural Innovations and Technologies. According to her, “Villages are the reflections of India and Agriculture its expression”.
Club members Gaurav Mohan, Pankaj Jain, Radha Saxena and Manu Saxena joined this movement along with Nirmalya and Dheerendra Pathak from Seva Samarpan Sansthan. Seminar ended with the distribution of sanitizers to the village people.
The farmers who were imparted training about technological innovations in agriculture field, were from about a dozen villages of Nari Bari and Koraon, one of the remotest places in Allahabad district.
Some of the farmers who participated in the training programme, included Dharma Narayan Prajapati and Vaidehi Sharan from Bihariya village, Sudhir Kumar, Sudhakar and Vimal Chandra Gupta from Derabari village, Munni Devi from Seedhe, Chhotelal, Anil Kumar and Akhilesh Kumar from Bhaisai, Sudhir Kumar from Lohgara, Bharat Kumar from Surbal Sehni, Vishwapati and Santosh Kumar from Gadha Katra, Om Narayan from Shankargarh and Dhirendra Pathak from Prayagraj.
