The winter school currently under way at ANGRAU’s Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS) has provided a platform for the best of the brains to discuss the various aspects of groundnut, right from production, protection, crop management and further to post-harvest.
Twenty-five scientists from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand, all of them working on groundnut research and extension, have converged at the campus for the first-ever winter school to be conducted in the State post-bifurcation.
“Apart from conventional breeding, the event discusses the biotechnological approaches to ensure tolerance to drought, diseases and pests,” said RARS Associate Director T. Giridhara Krishna. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) gave its nod to the proposal forwarded by the Tirupati RARS, in view of its expertise and achievements in the field of groundnut research.
The interactive session will be brainstorming in nature, where the scientists present the farming, research and extension practices in vogue in their respective States and imbibe the inputs learnt from the forum.
“We are roping in experts from various fields to address the participants,” the course director V. Krishna Reddy added. The event concludes on October 15.
While it is groundnut research this time, the RARS is contemplating to hold a similar winter school next year on biotechnology, another promising area for the research station.
Twenty-five scientists from various States
have converged at the campus for the first-ever winter school being conducted in the State
post-bifurcation
