Agriculture Minister V.S. Sunil Kumar will inaugurate a Paddy Congress, to be organised by the district career guidance and adolescent counselling cell of the Directorate of Higher Secondary Education, at the PWD rest house auditorium here at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
The programme is being organised as part of the ‘Nellu’ project in various schools in the district, the organisers said in a release issued here on Wednesday.
The project aims at introducing the possibilities of higher studies in agriculture and environment for higher secondary school students in the district, organisers said. The students have cultivated paddy on nearly six acres of land in the district under the project.
The value-added rice under the project would be provided free of cost to tribal children in the district after harvest, organisers added.