Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the city-based Participatory Rural Development Initiatives Society (PRDIS) with focus on areas such as field, research and development activities, capacity building programmes, monitoring and evaluation studies and national and international workshops/conferences.
The MoU was signed by Registrar S. Sudheer Kumar on behalf of PJTSAU and president of of PRDIS S. Venku Reddy on Friday evening in the presence of Vice Chancellor of the university V. Praveen Rao. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Praveen Rao said there were several areas in which the two organisations could collaborate for mutual benefit, particularly in providing agri-advisory services to the field facilitators and lead farmers of villages adopted by the PRDIS. Those villages would be technically backed by the nearest research stations and krishi vigyan kendras (KVKs) in the State.
Mr. Venku Reddy stated that field staff of the PRDIS was working with about 30,000 farmers in 70 villages in Telangana and have skill development centres in some of those villages. Director (International Programmes) of PJTSAU Anand Singh, other university officers of PJTSAU and functionaries of PRDIS participated in the programme.
